Arms

a term applied to weapons of offense, which are divisible into two distinct sections — firearms, and arms used without gunpowder or other explosive substance. NS | a hid \ Bees | <td i eas: eet ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS. Arms, Coat of, or Armorial Bearings, a collective name for the levices borne on shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction. and, in the case of family and feud a\ arms, descending from father to son, They were first employed by the crusaders, and became hereditary in families at the close of the 12th century. They took their rise from the knights painting their banners or shields each with a figure or figures proper to himself, to enable him to be distinguished in battle when elad in armor.. Arms, Stand of, the set of arms nece ary for the equipment of a sinzle soldier.