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A champion; a partisan; a lover. "Give this ring to my true knight." Shak "In all your quarrels will I be your knight." Tennyson. Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. Shak.

who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.

ical organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

y a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light. Knight.

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist. A number of moderate members managed ... to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift.

A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.

The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.

A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. A tailor called me in his shop. Shak.

opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. L…

A party man; a partisan. Milton.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan. [Colloq. or Humorous] W. Irving.

ding public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.

States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory. Her mother, ever strong against that match. Shak.

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

say he's warm man and does not care to be madAddison. I had been none of the warmest of partisans. Hawthor

of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.