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Knight
KNIGHT, n. nite.
1. Originally, a knight was a youth, and young men being employed as servants, hence it came to signify a servant. But among our warlike ancestors, the word was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. The admission to this privilege was a ceremony of great importance, and was the origin of the institution of knighthood. Hence, in feudal times, a knight was a man admitted to military rank by a certain ceremony. This privilege was conferred on youths of family and fortune, and hence sprung the honorable title of knight, in modern usage. A knight has the title of Sir.
2. A pupil or follower.
3. A champion.
Knight of the post, a knight dubbed at the whipping post or pillory; a hireling witness.
Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives of a county in parliament, originally a knight, but now any gentleman having an estate in land of six hundred pounds a year is qualified.
KNIGHT, v.t. nite. To dub or create a knight, which is done by the king who gives the person kneeling a blow with a sword, and says, rise, Sir.
knight appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Accolade Aid Angusticlave Armigerous Assizes Bachelor Banneret Baron Baronet Boll Capite Capitulary Carpet Castle-guard Cavalier Chancellor Chaperon Chess Chevalier Chivalrous Chivalry Clarenceux Coat Collar Commandry Conventional Darrain Degradation Device Discourteous Dispose Donship Dub Dubbed Dubbing Dwarf Equestrian Errant Errantry Escuage Esquire Fare Farthing Garter George Harness Hospitaller Knight Knight-errant Knight-errantry Knight-service Knighthood Knightliness Knightly Lansquenet Marshal Order Palace-court Popularly Post Present Prick Primer-seizin Relief Reservation Right Rumor Scutage Sergeantry Sesterce Shend Sir Socage Sore Squire Stage Table Tallage Templar Temple Tenure Teutonic Unknightly Valorous Weather-bit Youthful
Abacus Accolade Aid Angusticlave Armigerous Assizes Bachelor Banneret Baron Baronet Boll Capite Capitulary Carpet Castle-guard Cavalier Chancellor Chaperon Chess Chevalier Chivalrous Chivalry Clarenceux Coat Collar Commandry Conventional Darrain Degradation Device Discourteous Dispose Donship Dub Dubbed Dubbing Dwarf Equestrian Errant Errantry Escuage Esquire Fare Farthing Garter George Harness Hospitaller Knight Knight-errant Knight-errantry Knight-service Knighthood Knightliness Knightly Lansquenet Marshal Order Palace-court Popularly Post Present Prick Primer-seizin Relief Reservation Right Rumor Scutage Sergeantry Sesterce Shend Sir Socage Sore Squire Stage Table Tallage Templar Temple Tenure Teutonic Unknightly Valorous Weather-bit Youthful
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