armor, armour (armor)

t. [ The trees were yet growing and the iron unmined with which a navy was to be built and armored . Lowell , Study Windows, p. 152. armor-bearer (är'mor-bar"ėr), n. In ancient and feudal times, one who carried the armor or weapons of another. armored, armoured (är'mord), p. a. [ The "Stonewall" was a ram with armored sides. J. R. Soley , Blockade and Cruisers, p. 221. Fishes [ Cephalaspida ] whose peculiar armoured forms indicate a low stage of organization. Claus , Zoology (trans.), p. 177.