[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.", "(in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct.", "any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.", "a man upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Siris prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.", "a member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.", "Chess.a piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and two squares vertically.", "Nautical.a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave.", "a short vertical timber having on its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.", "any other fitting or erection bearing such a sheave."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to dub or make (a man) a knight."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Eric,1897–1943,U.S. novelist, born in England.", "Frank Hy·ne·man[hahy, -n, uh, -m, uh, n],1885–1972,U.S. economist."]}]