Definition of knight

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Knight (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 ---..

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Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
Knight :: Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
Banneret :: Banneret (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank..
Armorer :: Armorer (n.) Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor..
Chevalier :: Chevalier (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.
Donzel :: Donzel (n.) A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page..
Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry..
Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..
Lady :: Lady (n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
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..
Squire :: Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
Preceptory :: Preceptory (n.) A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2..
Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..
Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc..
Knight-errantries :: Knight-errantries (pl. ) of Knight-errantr.
Knights Templars :: Knights Templars (pl. ) of Knight Templa.
Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight..
Knighthood :: Knighthood (n.) The whole body of knights.
Equestrian :: Equestrian (a.) Belonging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order..
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