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Definition & Synonyms
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• Arm
- (n.) Anything resembling an arm
- (n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (n.) The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.
- (n.) A branch of a tree.
- (n.) A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.
- (n.) A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.
- (n.) A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
- (n.) The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.
- (v. t.) To furnish with arms or limbs.
- (v. i.) To provide ones self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
- (v. t.) Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
- (n.) Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
- (n.) An inlet of water from the sea.
- (n.) A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.
- (v. t.) To take by the arm; to take up in ones arms.
- (n.) The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
- (v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
Synonyms:
Branch, Fortify, Gird, Limb, Sleeve, Subdivision, Weapon,
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• Armored cruiser
- () A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemys shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.
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• Armorial
- (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.
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