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[ If the citadel of poverty and ignorance and vice is to be taken at all, it must be besieged from every point of the compa ,. and no kind of arm must be neglected which will tend to secure the ultimate victory of morality and culture. Jevons, Social Reform, p. 2. (b) pl . Armor; coverings for the body intended as defenses against weapons of war. IMG:content-1126.png:[blocks in formation] (c) A branch of the military service, as cavalry or artillery: as, the enemy was strong in artillery, but we were weak in that arm. The inland Britons being accustomed to rely upon their infantry, and the Continental Gauls being fonder of the cavalry arm . C. Elton , Orig. of Eng. Hist., p. 118. Hence-2. pl. The use of weapons; military occupations; war. By sea, by land, thy matchle worth was known, Arms thy delight, and war was all thy own. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., 1. 841. 3. pl . Deeds or exploits of war. Arms and the man I sing. Dryden , Æneid, i. 1. IMG:content-1127.png:[blocks in formation] arm pl. In bot., anything that serves as a defense to a plant, as prickles, thorns, or spines.-6. pl. In falconry, the legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot. - 7. pl. The heraldic bearings of an individual or a community, consisting of some device in heraldic tinctures (see tincture ) borne on a shield, generally with the addition of a crest and sometimes with supporters. A description in heraldic terms of shield, crest, etc., is called blazoning (which see). The right to bear the arms of the father is inherited by the sons, but in strictne each of the younger sons should add to the paternal shield a label as a mark of cadency; the same right descends to a daughter only if she is her father's heire . A person inheriting an estate other than the paternal one often a umes the arms of the former po e or, but should in strictne apply to the proper authorities. See king - at - arms, herald, and heralds ' college. Arms not paternal may be cla ed as follows: ( a ) Arms of dominion, or the national arms borne by the sovereign, in which generally the bearings inherited by the prince as an individual have come to have a certain national character. (b) Arms of community, as of a corporation, an episcopal see, or the like. Arms a umed by a republic, as by the United States or by one of the States, partake of the nature of both the preceding. (c) Arms of pretension, as, specifically, those a umed by a sovereign in a ertion of his claim to a realm not actually under his authority, like the fleurs-de-lys of France, which were borne by English sovereigns until 1801. (d) Arms of succe ion, denoting inheritance of an estate, as mentioned above. (e) Arms of a umption, or a umptive arms, bearings a umed or granted in consequence of an exploit, as the three feathers with the motto Ich dien taken from the slain King John of Bohemia by Edward the Black Prince at the battle of Crécy (1346), and now borne by the Prince of Wales. (f) Arms of alliance, as where one spouse impales the arms of the other on his or her shield. (9) Arms of office, arms which are the perquisite or appendage of some public position. In all the above cases except (a) and (b), a private individual having a right to such arms charges them with the paternal arms, whether by quartering or otherwise. For the origin and history of arms, see heraldry. - Abated arms. See abate. - Adoptive arms. See adoptive. Allusive arms, in her., a bearing or bearings having immediate reference to the wearer's name: thus, the arms of a person named Lamb or Herring would be termed allusive, if they included as a bearing a figure of the animal so named. In this way the name De Loupe may have been given to the first earls of Chester because of their bearing a wolf's head, or the name Arundel may be derived from swallows (French hi rondelles ) borne on the shield. The arms of Bolton are a cro bow-bolt driven through a tun. Castile and Leon had for their chief bearings a castle and a lion respectively. Also called allusive heraldry, There are many such cases. canting heraldry, rebus, and armes parlantes. -Arms carrying Act. See Bill of Rights, under bill.-Arms of precision, firearms rifled, furnished with graded sights, accurately prepared bullets, and appliances calculated to enable them to act with precision and rapidity, and at much greater distances than ordinary weapons. The Armstrong gun and the Springfield and Martini-Henry rifles are examples. - A ize of arms. See a ize.-A umptive arms. See above, 7 (e), and a umptive. - Coat of arms. See coat. - Places of arms, in fort., parts of the covered way opposite the salient and reëntering angles of the counterscarp.- Repeating arms, arnis that can be discharged a number of times without being reloaded.-Rifled small arms, rifles, muskets, carbines, pistols, or revolvers, the bores of which are cut with spiral grooves or "rifles." - Small arms, all weapons not requiring carriages, as opposed to artillery, and including rifles, muskets, bayonets, pistols, revolvers, sabers, and swords; also, sporting weapons. - Stand of arms, a complete set of arms for one soldier, consisting of a musket, bayonet, cartridge-box, and belt, with or without a sword. -To arms! a warning equivalent to arm! take to your arms; make ready for battle." (Compare alarm.) -Το bear arms, to do military service; serve as a soldier. You have been a soldier, De Vitry, and borne arms. Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, iii. 2. To be in arms, to be in a state of hostility, or of read i ne for war. IMG:content-1128.png:[blocks in formation] To be under arms, to be armed and in a state of readine for fighting. - To carry, order, present, etc., arms. See the verbs. - To take (or take up) arms, to arm for attack or defense, literally or figuratively. Ye will find it a far easier field to wage war against all the armies that ever were or will be on earth, and all the angels of heaven, than to take up arms against any truth of God. Nathaniel Ward , Simple Cobler. =Syn. 1. (a) Arm , Weapon . Arm is especially applied to those things which are designed for fighting and recognized as such; it includes means of defense as well as of offense. Weapon applies to any means of offense made for the purpose or (as a scythe, chisel, or hammer) used for the nonce. arm2 (ärm), v. [ armen , armer (F. armer ) = Pr. Sp. Pg. armar = It. armare , armare , arm, furnish with weapons, arm the militia. On our return to Souhag we met a party of men on foot, who were armed with spears, shields, and daggers, and one or two with guns. R. Curzon , Monast, in the Levant, p. 119. 2. To cover or provide with whatever will add strength, force, or security: as, to arm the hilt of a sword; to arm a man-of-war with armor plates.-3. To furnish with means of defense; prepare for resistance; fortify. Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. 1 Pet. iv. 1. IMG:content-1129.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1130.png:[blocks in formation] Nor was the naval unworthy of the land armada. Bulwer, Athens, II. 121. ( N. E. D. ) armadillo (är-ma-dil'ō), n. [Formerly also ar- madillio , armadilio, armadile ; armadillo (= Pg . arm a- dilho ), dim. of armado, arm- ed, with ref- erence to its bony shell. Cf. ML. arm a- dill us , a kind of sea-fish.] 1. An Ameri- can edentate IMG:content-1131.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1132.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Munitions of war; especially, the number and weight of all the guns which a ship of fore limb; especially, the bone of the upper war carries. Within a comparatively short period re- mark able changes have occurred in the size and weight of the armament of war-ve els. In the United States, be- fore the civil war, the usual armament for both forts and ve els consisted of 32-pounders. The war led to the con- struct i on and use of 15-inch smooth-bore guns, weighing 50,000 pounds, and afterward of 20-inch guns, weighing 100,- 000 pounds. Rifling was introduced in 1859, and is now universally employed, reliance being placed upon the piercing power of elongated projectiles moving at a great velocity and fired from rifled guns. The United States battle-ship "Indiana" (1893) is armed with four 13-inch, eight 8-inch, four 6-inch, and twenty quick-fire guns. In the British navy, the "Warrior," in 1861, was provided with 4-ton guns; but the weight of metal was succes- sively increased up to the 80-ton guns of the "Inflexible" (1876) and the 111-ton guns of the "Sans Pareil" (1887). The "Magnificent" (1894), the latest type, is armed with four 12-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, and twenty-eight smaller quick-fire guns. The more recent ships of other nations have similar armaments. armamentarium (arm a - a-men-tā'ri-um), pl. armamentaria (-). (L.) An armament ary An armament ary. The physiological investigation of new remedies for the purpose of enriching the armamentarium of the physician. Therapeutic Gazette , IX. 24. armament ary (är-ma-men'ta-ri), n .; pl. arm a- mentaries (-riz). [ armamentarium , an ar- senal, armory, armament a , equipments: see armament .] An armory; a magazine or an ar- senal. Bailey . armarian (är-ma'ri-an), n. [ armarius , armarium , a bookcase, library: see armary .] A librarian. See extract. [Rare.] Armarian , an officer in the monastic libraries who had charge of the books to prevent them from being injured by insects, and especially to look after bindings. He had also to keep a correct catalogue. armaryt, n . [ armarie (Wyclif), ar- marium , a chest, safe, or closet, a repository, in ML. esp. a bookcase, library, lit. a place for arms or tools. Cf. armory3, and armoryl , a dif- ferent word, of the same ult. origin, with which armary was confused.] 1. A library: used by Wyclif in the plural for books, writings. Thou shalt find write in armaries [Vulgate, in commen- tariis ]. Wyclif , Ezra iv. 15. 2. An armory. Leland , Itin., IV. 54. ( N. E. D. ) armatalt (är-mā'tä), n. Obsolete form of ar- mad a . Armata (är-ma'tä), n. pl . [NL., neut. pl. of L. armatus , armed: see armada . ] A group of gephyreans having setæ and a double blood- vascular system: synonymous with Chætifera . It consists of the families Echiuridæ and Ster- naspida. armature (är'ma-tūr), n. [F. armature = Pr. Sp. Pg. armadura = It. armadura , armatura , armatura , armor, equipment, armed troops, armatus , pp. of armare , arm: see arm2 , v . Doublet, armor , q. v.] 1. Military equipment; especially, defensive armor.-2. In zoöl . and an at .: ( a ) Any part or organ of an animal serv- ing as a means of defense or offense. quadruped, of the order Bruta (or Edentata ) and suborder Loric at a , and of the extant families Tatusiidæ , Dasypod ide , and Chlamydophorida , or of the extinct family Glyptodontida , having a hard shell or carapace like a coat of mail, resulting from a peculiar o ification of the integument and the confluence of numerous small scutes. In the glyptodons the carapace was en- tire and fixed, and even in some cases covered the belly as well as the back; but in all the living armadillos the shell is divided into an anterior, a posterior, and an en- tire or variously divided middle part. When the division of the middle part is complete, the animal can roll itself into a ball. The teeth are numerous, but vary in number and other characteristics with the several genera; in the genus Prionodontes they are a hundred in number. The It is remarkable that man, who is endowed with rea- peba is an armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ , the Tatusia son, is born without armature. novemcincta , the only one of the group found as far north Derham , Physico-Theology, iv. 14. as the United States. There are other species. The en- ( b ) Any apparatus or set of organs without couberts are the typical armadillos of the family Dasypo- dide. The peludo is Dasypus villosus. The kaba ous ous reference to defense; an equipment; an app a- constitute the genus Xenurus . The kabalas sou is Prio- nage: as, the genital or the anal armature . dontes gigas . The apars are the three-banded armadillos, of the genus Tolypeutes . The pichiciagos constitute the family Chlamydophoride ; they are the smallest and most peculiar forms, being le than a foot long, while the ka- bala ou is three feet long without the tail. All these animals are mild, timid, and inoffensive, subsisting on roots, leaves, and fruits, sometimes on insects or flesh. They are able to dig into the ground with great rapidity, escape from their enemies in this way as well as by rolling up in a ball. The flesh is considered good for food. 2. In Crustacea : ( a ) [ cap . ] A genus of iso- pods, of the family On is cid a , including the pill- bugs, which can roll themselves into a ball like the mammals called armadillos. ( b ) A species of this genus; a pill-bug or sow-bug; a kind of wood-louse. - 3. A name given to an electric battery composed of copper and zine elements riveted together, and designed to be worn as a remedy in certain diseases. armadot, n. An erroneous form of armada . armament (är'ma-ment), n. [L. arm amentum , usually in pl. armament a, implements, esp. tackle of a ship, armare , arm, equip: see arm2 , Others armed with hard shells; others with prickles; others having no such armature . Ray , On Creation. All the crayfishes have a complete gastric armature . Huxley , Crayfish, p. 255. 3. In bot . , the hairs, prickles, etc., covering an organ.-4. A body of armed troops. Ground fit for the archers and light armature . 5. In arch ., any system of bracing in timber or metal, as the iron rods used to sustain slender columns, to hold up canopies, etc. The term is applied especially to the iron framework by which lead- 6. A piece of soft iron applied simply by con- tact to the two poles of a magnet or electro- magnet as a means of maintaining the mag- netic power undiminished. In dynamo-electric ma- chines (which see, under electric ) the armature is a cylin- der or ring of laminated soft iron wound with coils of insulated copper wire. This armature is rotated rapidly in the field of the adjacent electromagnets. In the Holtz electric machine the armature is a strip of varnished paper attached to the edge of the openings or windows of the fixed plate. Also called armor. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 251. [L. Ar- Armenian (är-mē'ni-an), a. and n. menius, Ἀρμένιος , Αρμενία , Armenia.] I. a. Pertaining to Armenia, a former kingdom of Asia lying between the Black and Caspian seas, northeast of Asia Minor, now included in Turkey, Persia, and Asiatic Ru ia, or to its inhabitants. - Armenian architecture, a term some- IMG:content-1133.png:[graphic][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary Armenian with holding Monophysite or Eutychian doctrine, but many authorities hold that the differences arose from misunderstandings occasioned by the incapacity of the Armenian language to expre the finer distinctions of Greek terminology. The Armenian Church accepts all the first seven ecumenical councils, with the exception of that of Chalcedon, the doctrines of which they seem, how ever, to hold under a different phraseology. Their doctrines and usages closely resemble those of the Greek Church, with the exception of their use of unleavened bread and of an unmixed chalice in the eucharist. The priesthood is hereditary. The bishops four patriarchs, the primate being the catholicos, who resides in the monastery of Etchmiadzin, a short distance north of Mount Ararat. Since the fifteenth century a large number of the Armenians have joined the Roman Catholic Church and are known as United Armenians . A separate Armenian Protestant Church has also recently been formed.- Armenian era, liturgy, etc. See the nouns iso Armenian stone, a soft blue carbonate of cop per; also, a commercial name for lapis-lazuli. II. n. 1. A native of Armenia.-2. Eccles ., an adherent of the Armenian Church.-3. The Armenian language.