Knight

Knight - Other Definitions

• (n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  
  
• (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
  
  
• (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
  
  
• (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
  
  
• (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
  
  
• (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  
  
• (v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
  
  
• bachelor () A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
  
  
• banneret () A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
  
  
• baro-net () See Baronet.
  
  
• marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.
  
  
• service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
  
  
• Templar () See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knight