Word Meanings - KNIGHT-ER-RATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• QUARTZITE
  Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
• QUARTENE
  See BUTYLENE
• ERRANTRY
  1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. 2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.
• QUARTER ROUND
  An ovolo.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• QUARTENYLIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.
• QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
  A quadroon.
• QUARTERON
  A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
• QUARTAN
  Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
• QUARTZOID
  A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.
• QUARTZOUS
  Quarzose.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• QUARTERPACE
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• QUARTERMASTER
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• ERRANTIA
  A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• QUARTERLY
  1. Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons. 2. Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
• QUARTO
  Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• THREE-QUARTER
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.