To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

Great as a man's arm.

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

a family comrising the pill bugs.

the type genus of the Armadillidiidae.

Any edentate animal if the family Dasypid/, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay. A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.

Armada.

the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction.

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal.

Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.

a band worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.

Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

a country in the Caucasus, formerly a part of the Soviet Union.

A native or one of the people of Armenia; also, the language of the Armenians.

a genus of shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials.

A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

As much as the arm can hold.

With gaunt or slender legs. (?)

The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

Bearing arms or weapons.

Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.

Bearing arms.

A bracelet.

An armil.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.

The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.

One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).

The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians.

Power in arms.

Powerful in arms; mighty in battle.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

Without any arm or branch.

A small arm; as, an armlet of the sea.

Ammoniac.

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.

horseradish.

Clad with armor.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.

A native of Armorica.

Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry.

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

protected with a covering of armor.

provided with protective covering; -- used of animals. Opposite of unarmored.

an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

a collection of resources.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

Armor.

A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

See Annotto.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.

An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.

Same as Annotto.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.

The earthnut.

Any plant of the Arum family (Arace/); -- have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants (Araceae).

To drive or scare off by some exclamation.

The stone pine (Pinus Cembra).

The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.

A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.

Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.

The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.

To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic.

Aromatic.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.

On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.

proceeding without interruption for twenty four hours every day.

The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.

emotionally stimulated.

In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.

See Aroint.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.

The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor.

An arpent.

Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved.

The shot of an arquebus.

A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.

A soldier armed with an arquebus.

Same as Alquifou.

See Orach.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

See Aragonite.

To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

One who arraigns.

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

disposed or placed in a particular kind of order.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

One who arranges.

the act of arranging a piece of music.

Notoriously or pre/minently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully.

To furnish with an arras.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form.

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

Clothes; raiment.

That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes.

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears.

To direct.

An upright beam.

Lifted up; raised; erect.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.