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Joust :: "Joust (v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt..

Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known..

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc..

Beauseant :: Beauseant (n.) The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task..

Knight :: Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

Knight :: Knight (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..

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

Blackcap :: Blackcap (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale..

Midnight :: Midnight (n.) The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.

Chevalier :: Chevalier (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.

#NAME? :: -hood () A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head..

Nocturn :: Nocturn (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night..

Full :: Full (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight..

Knight-errantry :: Knight-errantry (n.) The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.

Collar :: Collar (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

Tellurian :: Tellurian (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons..

Camisado :: Camisado (n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack..

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