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Lance
LANCE(Itin. Ant. p. 395), or LA´NCIA (Λαγκία, Dio Cass., 29; Flor. 4.12; Oros. 6.21), or LANCIATUM(Λ...
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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Lance
·noun A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
II. Lance ·vt To pierce with a lance, or with any sim...
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Knight
·noun A champion; a partisan; a lover.
II. Knight ·noun A young servant or follower; a military att...
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Lance fish
·- A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus of the English coast;...
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crispin's lance
An awl.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Ale-knight
·noun A pot companion.
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Knight bachelor
·- A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order...
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Knight banneret
·- A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, ...
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Knight marshal
·- An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within...
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Knight service
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service.
II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...
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Knight Templar
·- ·see <<Commandery>>, ·noun, 3, and also Templar, ·noun, 1 and 3.
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Knight-errant
·noun A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiti...
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Knight-errantries
·pl of Knight-errantry.
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Knight-errantry
·noun The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventure...
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Knight-errants
·pl of Knight-errant.
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Knight, Charles
(1791-1873)
Publisher and writer, b. at Windsor, where his f.. was a bookseller. After serving his ...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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carpet-knight
A man who obtains knighthood on a pretence for services in which he never participated.
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knight-heads
Two large oak timbers, one on each side of the stem, rising up sufficiently above it to support the ...
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Fer-de-lance
·noun A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is a...
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Knight baro-net
·- ·see <<Baronet>>.
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Knight-er-ratic
·adj Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
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Knight, Henry Gally
(1786-1846)
A country gentleman of Yorkshire, ed. at Eton and Camb., was the author of several Orie...
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knight of the blade
A bully.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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knight of the post
A false evidence, one that is ready to swear any thing for hire.
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knight of the rainbow
A footman: from the variety of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth.
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knight of the road
A highwayman.
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knight of the sheers
A taylor.
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knight of the thimble
A taylor or stay-maker.
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knight of the whip
A coachman.
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knight of the trencher
A great eater.
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knight and barrow pig
more hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose