ARMS

Anything that a man wears for his defense, or takes in his hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at or strike at another. Co. Litt. 161b, 162a; State v. Buzzard, 4 Ark. 18. This term, as it is used in the constitution, relative to the right of citizens to bear arms, refers to the arms of a militiaman or soldier, and the word is used in its military sense. The arms of the infantry soldier are the musket and bayonet; of cavalry and dragoons, the sabre, holster pistols, and carbine; of the artillery, the field-piece, siege-gun, arid mortar, with side arms. The term, in this connection, cannot be made to cover such weapons as dirks, daggers, slung-shots, sword canes, bra knuckles, and bowie-knives. These are not military arms. English v. State, 35 Tex. 476, 14 Am. Rep. 374; Hill v. State, 53 Ga. 472; Fife v. State, 31 Ark. 455, 25 Am. Rep. 556; Andrews v. State, 3 Heisk. (Tenn.) 179, 8 Am. Rep. 8; Aymette v. State, 2 Humph. (Tenn.) 154. Arms, or coat of arms, signifies insignia, i. e., ensigns of honor, such as were formerly a umed by soldiers of fortune, and painted on their shields to distinguish them; or nearly the same as armorial bearings, (q. v.) ARMY,· The armed forces of a nation intended for military service on land. "The term 'army' or 'armies' has never been used by congre , so far as I am advised, so as to include the navy or marines, and there is nothin!f in the act of 1862, or the circumstances which led to its pa age, to warrant the conclusion that it was used therein in any other than its long established and ordinary sense,- the land force, as distinguished from the navy. and marines." In re Bailey, 2 Sawy, 205, Fed. ·Cas. No. 728. But see In re Stewart, 7 Rob. (N. Y.) 636. [s. 93]