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[Dut. arm poor.] A beggar. "O hear God!-so young an arm in ! Μ. Γίοις. Αrmin , sweet heart, I know not what you mean By that, but I am almost a beggar." London Prod., Supp. Sh., ii. 519. ( Nares .) * ar-mined, a. [ERMINED.] arm'-ing, pr. par., a., & s. [ARM, v.t.] A. & B. As pr. par. and participial adj.: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of equipping one's self with weapons, or the state of being so equipped. ( a ) Lit .: "For the arming was now universal."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. (b) Fig .: Confirmation of a suspicion, or of a truth previously but half-believed. "2 Lord. Hath the count all this intelligence? 1 Lord . Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from point, to the full arming of the verity."- Shakesp. All's Well that Ends Well , iv. & 2. That which constitutes the equipment. II. Technically ( Nautical ): 1. Plur .: Waist-cloths; cloths hung about the outside of the ship's upper-works fore and aft, and before the cubbrige heads. Some are also hung round the tops, called top armings. 2. Sing . (in soundings at sea ): A preparation of tallow, placed in the concavity at the bottom of the lead used for soundings, and designed to ascertain the character of the ocean bed at the place. "The soundings from which this section is laid down were taken with great care by Capt. Fitzroy himself: he used a bell-shaped lead, having a diameter of four inches, and the armings each time were cut off and brought on board for me to examine. The arming is a preparation of tallow, placed in the concavity at the bottom of of the lead. Sand, and even small fragments of rock, will adhere to it; and if the bottom be of rock, it brings up an exact impre ion of its surface."-Darwin: On Coral Reefs (1842), ch. i., p. 7. D. In composition: Applied to various things used in, and for the purpose of, arming. arming-buckle, s. Her.: A lozenge-shaped buckle. (Glo . of Heraldry .)