<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.</li><li>(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.</li><li>Any person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight.</li><li>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.</li><li>In Great Britain, he holds the rank next below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the Christian name, as in Sir John Smith.</li><li>A member of any order or association that designates its members as knights.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To dub or make (a man) a knight.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>