Word Meanings - KNIGHT-ERRANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• QUESTORSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• QUIXOTICALLY
  In a quixotic way.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• EQUESTRIAN
  1. Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games. 2. Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator. 3. Belonging to, or composed
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• ACQUEST
  Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier. (more info) acquisitum, for L. acquisitum, p. p. of 1. Acquisition; the thing gained. Bacon.
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.