knight : Idioms & Phrases


ale-knight

Ale"-knight` noun
Definitions
  1. A pot companion. Obs.
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Carpet knight

  • noun a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle)
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  • . (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.
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hablot knight browne

  • noun English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
    Phiz; Browne.
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knight bachelor

  • noun a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
    bachelor-at-arms; bachelor.
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Knight" bach"e*lor
Wordforms
plural Knights bachelors
Definitions
  1. A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
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knight banneret

  • noun a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
    knight banneret; banneret.
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Knight" ban"ner*et
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plural Knights bannerets
Definitions
  1. 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.
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knight baro-net

Knight" bar"o-net
Definitions
  1. See Baronet.
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knight errantry

  • noun quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
    quixotism.
  • noun (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry
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knight marshal

Knight" mar"shal
Definitions
  1. (Eng. Law) 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. Wharton.
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Knight of industry

  • . See Chevalier d'industrie, under Chevalier.
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Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem

  • . See Hospitaler.
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Knight of the post

  • one who gained his living by giving false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper in general. Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence." Nash.
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knight of the round table

  • noun in the Arthurian legend, a knight of King Arthur's court
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Knight of the shire

  • in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs.
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knight of the square flag

  • noun a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
    knight banneret; banneret.
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knight service

Knight" serv"ice
Definitions
  1. (Eng. Feud. Law) A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
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knight templar

  • noun a man who belongs to a Masonic order in the United States
  • noun a knight of a religious military order established in 1118 to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher
    Templar.
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Knight" Tem"plar
Wordforms
plural Knights Templars
Definitions
  1. See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
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knight's service

  • noun land tenure by service to the lord as a knight
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knight-er-ratic

Knight"-er-rat"ic adjective
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. R. Quart. Rev.
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knight-errant

  • noun a wandering knight travelling in search of adventure
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Knight"-er`rant noun
Wordforms
plural Knight-errants, or Knights-errant
Definitions
  1. A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
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knight-errantry

Knight"-er`rant*ry noun
Wordforms
plural Knight-errantries
Definitions
  1. The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
    The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
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Knights commanders, Knights grand cross

  • different classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and Companion.
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Knights of labor

  • a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers. U. S.
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Knights of Pythias

  • a secret order, founded in Washington, d.C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes.
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Knights of the Round Table

  • knights belonging to an order which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common title from the table around which they sat on certain solemn days.
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Lance knight

  • a lansquenet. B. Jonson.
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white knight

  • noun a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
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