Armchair, Armed chair

An elbow-chair, or a chair with rests for the arms. Armcolo'la Creek, in Georgia, enters the Etowa in the S.W. of Lumpkin co. Armed, p. a. Furnished with arms, or weapons of offence or defence; furnished with the means of security. Fortified, (in a moral sense.) (Physics.) Said of a magnet when furnished with an armature. ( Bot .) Furnished with prickles or thorns. (Her.) Applied to the horns, hoofs, beak, or talons of any beast or bird of prey, when borne of a different color than the rest of their bodies. Arme'nia, an extensive country of W. Asia, forming principally that table-land which lies between the Kur on the N. and the mountains of Kurdistan on the S., having the Euphrates on the W., and nearing the Caspian sea on the E. Lat. between 37° 50′ and 41° 40′ N.; Lon. 39° 20 and 50° 40′ E. - Area , loosely estimated at 90,000 sq. m. Its principal mountain summit is Ararat (q. v.), and there are several other lofty chains. - Riv ers . Some large rivers take rise in this country, as the Euphrates and Tigris, the Kur, the Araxes or Aras, and the Chorak. Its greatest lakes are those of Van, Urmiah, and Goukcha or Sevan. The soil is generally very fertile; in the higher parts all kinds of cereals may be cultivated, and the valleys produce excellent cotton, grapes, tobacco, rice, hemp and flax. The minerals are iron, rock-salt, lead, arsenic, alum and great abundance of copper, indeed A. is exceedingly rich in mineral wealth. In ancient times the precious metals were also found. Many deserts exist, and the country is but thinly peopled. Climate . Severe in winter, but in summer hot enough to ripen all manner of fruits.Inhabitants. Mostly Turks, Persians, and Ru ians, with wandering hordes of Kurds and Turcomans. Prin. towns. Erzeroum, Erivan, Van, Akhlat, . - Pop . 5,276,714, of whom the Christians number 1,385,627.History. A. , now long since extinct as a nation, was governed for a long period by independent princes, or by satraps of the A yrian and Persian monarchs. It was the theatre of long wars between the Romans and Armentières ( ar - man'ti - air ), a frontier town of France, dep. du Nord, on the Lys, 13 m. N.W. of Lille. Manf. Linen fabrics, laces, beet root sugar . Pop. (1891), 27,628.