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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..

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry..

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

Unknight :: Unknight (v. t.) To deprive of knighthood.

Companion :: Companion (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath..

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight..

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

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

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..

Knightly :: Knightly (adv.) In a manner becoming a knight.

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

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..

Knighthood :: Knighthood (n.) The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry..

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..

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

Donzel :: Donzel (n.) A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page..

Sir :: Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

Chevalier :: Chevalier (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory..

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