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Knight

noun

Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit.

A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa). Synonym: horse.

verb

(past & past part. knighted; pres. part. knighting)

Raise (someone) to knighthood. Synonym: dub.

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"Knight" Quotes from Famous Books

... so bold and a maiden so bright Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed at each other in tender delight. Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight, And the maid ...

— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... ignorance, it dwindles into the mere routine of the baser side of our intellect. But the bees have themselves answered the objection Messrs. Kirby and Spence advanced. Scarcely had it been formulated when another naturalist, Andrew Knight, having covered the bark of some diseased trees with a kind of cement made of turpentine and wax, discovered that his bees were entirely renouncing the collection of propolis, and exclusively using this unknown matter, which ...

— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck

... carry the string, Teddy," cried Tiz; and the next minute she was stepping along with it proudly, while Ned, with his arm through the loop and the kite on his back, looked something like a Knight Crusader with a ...

— Brave and True - Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others • George Manville Fenn

... her husband, because he looked so triste." Adela often fell into French, from being so long at the Paris school, and not from affectation in the least. "And she said, 'Come, Henry, let us see what is in there.' And she took one step in, and peered into that robber-knight's face; you know how he is sitting on a little stool, his black hair all round his ...

— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney

... two years older than Calhoun, but they had been playmates from babyhood, and were great friends. Jennie called him her knight-errant. More than once he had carried a pair of black eyes in fighting her battles when some of the larger boys had ...

— Raiding with Morgan • Byron A. Dunn

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