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1. 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 ---. 2. A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4. 3. A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle. 4. See Baronet. 5. See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3. 6. A young servant or follower; a military attendant. 7. 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. 8. One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. 9. A champion; a partisan; a lover. 10. A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head. 11. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. 12. An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. 13. A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. 14. a chessman in the shape of a horse''s head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically or vice versa 
Related wordscarpet knight chess chessman chivalric chivalrous ennoble geraint knight knight bachelor knight banneret knight of the round table knight templar knight-errant male aristocrat |
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