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Knight
·noun A champion; a partisan; a lover.
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Service
·noun The act of serving the ball.
II. Service ·- ·Alt. of Service.
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service
The profession; as a general term, expresses every kind of duty which a naval or military man can be...
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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 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 ...
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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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lance-knight
A foot-soldier of old.
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Bond service
·- The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery.
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Bord service
·- Service due from a bordar; bordage.
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Knight's service
·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service.
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Secret service
·add. ·- The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of...
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Service cap
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat.
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Service hat
·add. ·- A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is...
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Service uniform
·add. ·- The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dr...
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recruiting service
Robbing on the highway.
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service-berry
A wild fruit common to the British provinces in America, described by Sir Geo. Simpson as "a sort of...
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active service
Duty against an enemy; operations in his presence. Or in the present day it denotes serving on full-...
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divine service
Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on a Sunday will allow of it.
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foreign service
Vessels or forces stationed in any part of the world out of the United Kingdom. The opposite of home...
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grab service
Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...
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home-service
The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....
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long-service
A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use.
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merchant service
The mercantile marine.
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preventive service
The establishment of coast-guards at numerous stations along the shores of the United Kingdom for th...
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short-service
Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range.
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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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Civil Service Commission
·add. ·- In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members,...
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Civil Service Reform
·add. ·- The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of...
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Public-service corporation
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Quasi-public corporation.
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continuous service men
Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...
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mend the service
Put on more service to the cable, or any part of the rigging chafed.
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points of service
The principal details of duty, which ought to be executed with zeal and alacrity.
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knight of the blade
A bully.
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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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training-ship for the merchant service
A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...
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