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n Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs. -- Knights commanders, Knights grand cross, different classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and Companion. Knights of labor, a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as resp…

See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

es, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his own responsibility without regard to party lines or deference to authority. -- Lance bucket (Cavalry), a socket attached to a sadd…

One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander.

The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel.

A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

The commander of a fleet. Mitford.

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

ry title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. [Written also pacha.]

In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

ared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.

nights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

t of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

uresome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

The commander of a privateer. Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate. Macaulay.

charged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

The deep; the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys.