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.

The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.

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.

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.

The act of taking away.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained.

The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.

Arrest.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

One who arrests.

Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

Tending to arrest.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

Same as Aret.

Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

Seamless.

Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant.

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

Want of rhythm.

To please; to gratify.

/That which is behind/; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.

Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise.

The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

Arrival.

Arrival.

One who arrives.

directed or moving inward or toward a center; as, arriving trains.

A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir.

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.

Arrogance.

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.

In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.

Arrogance.

To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.

The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.

Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance.

A subdivision of a department.

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.