Armament

[Lat. arm amentum.] A force equipped for war, either naval or military. - Also used to signify weapons employed for war, whether in sea or land service. More particularly applied to the number and strength of the batteries carried by a ve el of war. Ar'mature, n. [Fr. from Lat. armatura.] Armor; something to defend the body from hurt. "Others should be armed with hard shells; others with prickles; the rest that have no such armature , should be endued with great swiftne and pern i city."-Ray on the Creation. (Phys.) A piece of soft iron affixed to the poles or extremities of a magnet, in order that its magnetic power may be preserved. It is sometimes called a keeper. In dynamos a coil or series of coils of wires are used for the armature. In these, by revolution, an electric current is produced. See DYNAMO and ELECTRIC MOTOR.