knighthood-errant

(nit’hid-er’ant),n. A body of knights errant. [Rare.] I was first of all the kings who drew The knighthood-errant of this realm and all The realms together under me, their Head. Tennyson, Guinevere. knighthood-moneyt, ». In Eng. hist., a fine payable by persons who refused to accept the honor of knighthood. He was fined in October, 1630, for refusing the honour of knighthood, a matter then lately brought up to obtain money for his majesties use. This money, which was paid by all persons of 40 li. per an. that refused to come in and be dub’d knights, was called knighthood-money. Life of A. Wood (1642). Knight i a (ni’ti-), ». [NLL. (Robert Brown, 1810), named after Thomas Andrew/Knight, once president of the British Horticultural Society.] A genus of proteaceous plants of the tribe Hmbothriew, made by Reichenbach the type of his division Aiightiew. They are trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia, having sparse thick leaves and dense se ile racemes of flowers which are pedicellate in twos. The fruit is a hard, straight, or somewhat falcate pod. There are only three known species, one of which, K. excels a, a native of New Zealand, is a lofty tree, the so-called New Zealand oak or rew a-rew a, the wood of which is prized for its mottled red and brown color, rendering it suitable for ornamental work and furniture. It also splits readily. The tree is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental shade-tree. The remaining two species are small trees of New Caledonia, differing in some important respects from the New Zealand type.