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- English Word Arm Definition To furnish with arms or limbs.
- English Word Arm Definition To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
- English Word Arm Definition To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.
- English Word Arm Definition Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
- English Word Arm Definition To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
- English Word Arm-gret Definition Great as a man's arm.
- English Word Armada Definition A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
- English Word Armadillo Definition Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.
- English Word Armadillo Definition A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
- English Word Armadillos Definition of Armadillo
- English Word Armado Definition Armada.
- English Word Armament Definition A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
- English Word Armament Definition All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- English Word Armament Definition Any equipment for resistance.
- English Word Armamentary Definition An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
- English Word Armature Definition Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.
- English Word Armature Definition A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
- English Word Armature Definition Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc.
- English Word Armchair Definition A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.
- English Word Armed Definition of Arm