Bachelry: alternatives and connections

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it…

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a…

A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand…

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the…

The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…

A member of certain orders of knighthood.

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person,…

characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.

Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of A…

A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for servi…

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…