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Knights Bachelors :: Knights bachelors (pl. ) of Knight bachelo.

Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..

Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..

Preceptor :: Preceptor (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars.

Knight Bachelor :: Knight 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..

Knight :: Knight (n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.

Chivalric :: Chivalric (a.) Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

Knightless :: Knightless (a.) Unbecoming a knight.

Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right..

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

Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..

Knightliness :: Knightliness (n.) The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry.

Baronet :: Baronet (n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners..

Donship :: Donship (n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight..

Chivalrous :: Chivalrous (a.) Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.

Ailette :: Ailette (n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet..

Knights-errant :: Knights-errant (pl. ) of Knight-erran.

Knight-errantries :: Knight-errantries (pl. ) of Knight-errantr.

Belted :: Belted (a.) Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted earl..

Cycle :: Cycle (n.) The circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins..

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