Word Meanings - KNIGHTBANNERET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 of battle.

• Knight-er-ratic
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
• Numberous
  Numerous.
• Obliger
  One who, or that which, obliges.
• Personated
  of Personate
• Possession
  The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
• Sovereignty
  The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into
• Fieldwork
  Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
• Knighthead
  A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
• Numbers
  pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• Obligor
  The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.
• Personating
  of Personate
• Possessionary
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• BACHELORSBUTTON
  , (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena). Note: Bachelor's buttons, a name given to several flowers "from their similitude to the
• Conferred
  of Confer
• Knighthood
  The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.

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