Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Knight
knight, n. [OE cniht, lad, servant, soldier.] (webplay: great, servants, six hundred, times).
Attendant; champion; chevalier; paladin; hero; horseman; mounted soldier; youth of military rank; man devoted to a lady; [fig.] male principle of the universe.
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