arm 
There is no terror, Cassius, ill your threats ; 
I'or I am arm'd so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by me as the idle wind. 
iS/iftn., J. L"> IV- o. 
I am arming myself against her favours with all my 
philosophy. Steele, Tatler, No. 124. 
4. To provide with the requisite appliances or 
authority for any work or undertaking: as, arm- 
erf with axes and alpenstocks, we started out; 
armed with a warrant. 5. To fit or prepare (a 
thing) for any specific purpose or effective use : 
as, to arm a hook in angling ; to arm a dressing 
in surgery To arm a lead, to apply soap or grease to 
the socket in the lower end of a sounding-lead, so that a 
specimen of the bottom may be brought up. To arm a 
magnet to lit it with an armature. See armature, 6. 
To arm 'a shot to roll rope-yarns about a cross-bar shot 
in order to facilitate ramming it home, and also to pre- 
vent the ends from catching any accidental inequalities 
in the bore. Wilhelm, Mil. Diet. [For other phrases, sec repl . esenliulve . in ioul Lllc ..., .._,..., 
armed.] 4 j.tou guns ; but since then the weight of metal has been 
II intrans. To provide one's self with arms, successively increased up to the 80-ton guns of the In- 
weapons, or means of attack or resistance; flexible" and .the no-ton guns of the barbette shipj' ^Cam- 
take arms : as, the nations arm for war. 
Now is it time to arm. Shak., Hen. V., iii. 7. 
312 
.] 1. A body of forces equipped for war: 
used of a land or naval force. 
The whole united armament of Greece. Glover. 
It was necessary for him . . . to proceed with his twenty 
men-of-war to the Mediterranean, while his superiors, with 
the rest of the armament, returned to the Channel. 
Mimtulay, Hist. Lug., xx. 
2 Munitions of war; especially, the number 
and weight of all the guns which a ship of 
war carries. Within a comparatively short period re- 
markable changes have occurred in the size and weight of 
the armament of war-vessels. In the United States, be- 
fore the civil war, the usual armament for both forts and 
vessels consisted of 32-pounders. The war led to the con- 
struction and use of 15-inch smooth-bore gnus, weighing 
50 000 pounds, and afterward of 20-lncb guns, weighing 100,- 
000 pounds. Kifled cannon, which had been introduced in 
1859 were also increased in size np to the 10-inch-borc Par- 
rott'gun throwing a 300-pound projectile. Of other coun- 
tries the armament of the British navy may be taken as 
representative. In 1861 the "Warrior" was provided with 
,. :,..... !,.... tliu roi<rllt (if nUttUM lt:IS IM''t'll 
The Belgic tribes, alarmed at the approaching danger, 
arm against the universal tyrant. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, 1. 11. 
armada (ar-rna'da), . [Early mod. E. also 
erroneously armado (also sometimes as It., ar- 
mata) ; < Sp. armada = Pr. Pg. armada = It. ar- 
mata = F. armee (> E. army"*, q. v.), lit. an 
armed force, army, navy, < ML. armata, an 
armed force, an army, prop. fern, of L. ar- 
matus, pp. of armare, arm: see arm 2 , v., and 
also army, which is a doublet.] 1. A fleet of 
war-ships ; a squadron. The Spanish or Invincible 
Armada which consisted of 130 large ships, was sent by 
Philip II. against England in 1588, during the reign of 
Elizabeth, but was repulsed, and afterward almost en- 
tirely destroyed by storms off the Orkney islands and on 
the western coast of Ireland. 
A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak. , K. John, iii. 4. 
2f. A single war-ship. 3. Any armed force ; 
an army. 
Nor was the naval unworthy of the laud armada. 
Bulwer, Athens, II. 121. (N. E. D.) 
armadillo (ar-ma-dil'6), n, [Formerly also ar- 
madillio, armadilio, armadile; < Sp. armadillo 
(= Pg. arma- 
dillio), dim. of 
armado, arm- 
ed, with ref- 
erence to its 
bony shell. 
Cf. ML. arma- 
dilhis, a kind 
of sea-fish.] 
1. An Ameri- Armadillo, or YtAu&o(Dasyfus -vitlosus). 
can edentate 
quadruped, of the order Bruta (or Edentata) and 
suborder Loricata, and of the extant families 
Tatusiida, Dasypodida;, and Chlamydophorida;, 
or of the extinct family Glyptodontidai, having 
a hard shell or carapace like a coat of mail, 
resulting from a peculiar ossification of the 
integument and the confluence of numerous 
small scutes. In the glyptodons the carapace was en- 
tire and fixed, and even in some cases covered the belly 
as well as the back ; but in all the living armadillos the 
shell is divided into an anterior, a posterior, and an en- 
tire or variously divided middle part. When the division 
of the middle part is complete, the animal can roll itself 
into a ball. The teeth are numerous, but vary in number 
and other characteristics with the several genera ; in the 
genus Primwdontes they are a hundred in number. The 
peba is an armadillo of the family Tatusiidce, the Tatutna 
novemcincta, the only one of the group found as far north 
as the United States. There are other species. The en- 
couberts are the typical armadillos of the family Dasypo- 
didce The peludo is Dasj/pus villomi. The kabassous 
constitute the genus Xenurus. The kabalassou is Prio- 
dontei trigas. The apars are the three-banded armadillos, 
of the genus Tolypeutets. The pichiciagos constitute the 
family Chlamifdophoridce ; they are the smallest and most 
peculiar fornis, being less than a foot long, while the ka- 
balassou is three feet long without the tail. All these 
animals are mild, timid, and inoffensive, subsisting on 
roots, leaves, and fruits, sometimes on insects or flesh. 
They are able to dig into the ground with great rapidity, 
and escape from their enemies in this way as well as by 
rolling up in a ball. The flesh is considered good for food. 
2. In Crustacea: (a) [cop.] A genus of iso- 
pods, of the family Oniscidm, including the pill- 
bugs, which can roll themselves into a ball 
like the mammals called armadillos, (b) A 
species of this genus ; a pill-bug or sow-bug ; a 
kind of wood-louse. 3. A name given to an 
electric battery composed of copper and zinc 
elements riveted together, and designed to be 
worn as a remedy in certain diseases, 
armadot, . An erroneous form of armada. 
armament (ar'ma-ment), n. [< L. armamentum, 
usually in pi. armamenta, implements, esp. 
tackle of a ship, < armare, arm, equip : see arm 2 , 
nexiine aim uie no-ion guns of the barbette snip - 
perdown." In Europe preference is given to the piercing 
power of elongated projectiles moving at a great velocity 
and fired from rifled guns. In the United States reliance 
has until recently been placed upon the smashing effect 
of heavy spherical projectiles fired at a low velocity from 
smooth-bore guns. See gun. 
armamentarium (iir"ma-men-ta n-um), n.; 
pi. armamentaria (-a). [L.] An armamentary. 
The physiological investigation of new remedies for the 
purpose of enriching the armamentarium of the physician. 
Therapeutic Gazette, IX. 24. 
armamentary (ar-ma-raen'ta-ri), n. ; pi. arma- 
mentaries (-riz). [<"L. armamentarium, an ar- 
senal, armory, < armamenta, equipments: see 
armament.] An armory ; a magazine or an ar- 
senal. Bailey. 
armarian (ar-ma'ri-an), n. [< ML. armarius, < 
armarium, a bookcase, library : see armary] A 
librarian. See extract. [Bare.] 
Armarian, an officer in the monastic libraries who had 
charge of the books to prevent them from being injured by 
insects, and especially to look after bindings. He had also 
to keep a correct catalogue. 
Chambers'* Journal, No. 276, p. 239. (.V. E. D.) 
armaryt, n. [< ME. armarie (Wyclif), < L. ar- 
marium, a chest, safe, or closet, a repository, 
in ML. esp. a bookcase, library, lit. a place for 
arms or tools. Cf . armory*, and armory^, a dif- 
ferent word, of the same ult. origin, with which 
armary was confused.] 1. A library: used by 
Wyclif in the plural for books, writings. 
Thou shalt find write in armories [Vulgate, in commen- 
tariii}. Wyclif, Ezra iv. 15. 
2. An armory. Leland, Itin., IV. 54. (N. E. D.) 
armata 1 1 (ar-ma'ta), n. Obsolete form of ar- 
mada. 
Armata 2 (ar-ma'ta), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
L. armatus, armed: see armada] A group of 
gephyreans having setse and a double blood- 
vascular system: synonymous with Chatifera. 
It consists of the families Echiuridce and Ster- 
naspida 1 . 
armature (ar'ma-tur), n. [= F. armature = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. armadura'= It. armadura, armatura, < 
L. armatura, armor, equipment, armed troops, 
< armatus, pp. of armare, arm: see arm 2 , v. 
Doublet, armor, q. y.] It. Military equipment: 
especially, defensive armor. 2. In zodl. and 
anat. : (a) Any part or organ of an animal serv- 
ing as a means of defense or offense. 
Others armed with hard shells; others with prickles ; 
others having no such armature. Ray, On Creation. 
It is remarkable that man, who is endowed with rea- 
son, is born without armature. 
Derham, Physico-Theology, iv. 14. 
(b) Any apparatus or set of organs without 
reference to defense ; an equipment ; an appa- 
nage : as, the genital or the anal armature. 
All the crayfishes have a complete gastric armature. 
Huxley, Crayfish, p. 255. 
3. In lot., the hairs, prickles, etc., covering an 
organ. 4f. A body of armed troops. 
Ground fit for the archers and light armature. 
Raleigh, Hist, of World, v. 6. 
5. In arch., any system of bracing in timber or 
metal, as the iron rods used to sustain slender 
columns, to hold up canopies, etc. The term is 
applied especially to the iron framework by which lead- 
lights are secured in medieval windows. 
6. A piece of soft iron applied simply by con- 
tact to the two poles of a magnet or electro- 
magnet as a means of maintaining the mag- 
netic power undiminished. In dynamo-electric ma- 
chines (which see, under electric) the armature is a bar or 
ring of soft iron, around which coils of insulated copper 
wire have been wound. This armature is rotated rapidly 
in the field of the adjacent electromagnets. In the Holtz 
electric machine the armature is a strip of varnished paper 
attached to the edge of the openings or windows of the 
fixed plate. Also called armiir. 
armazine, n. See armozeen. 
Armenian 
arm-band (arm'band), . A piece of crooked 
iron attached to a rail or to a stone block fixed 
against the walls in barrack-rooms, to retain 
the soldiers' muskets when not in use. 
arm-board (iirm'bord), n. A graining-lioard 
used in leather-working, made of the outer bark 
of the cork-oak, without grooves. 
arm-bone (iirm'bon), n. A bone of the arm or 
fore limb; especially, the bone of the upper 
arm ; the humerus. 
arm-chair (arm'char), n. A chair with arms to 
support the elbows. 
arm-chest (arm'ehest), n. 1. Naval, aboxplaced 
on the upper deck, or in the tops, to contain a 
ready supply of rifles, pistols, or cutlasses. 
2. A similar box or chest used in the military 
service for the transportation of small arms. 
armed (armd), p. a. [< r 2 + -cfV] 1. Bear- 
ing arms ; furnished with means of offense and 
del ense : as, an armed force or ship ; " the armed 
rhinoceros," Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 2. Sup- 
ported by arms ; carried on or maintained by 
force or readiness for military action : as, an 
armed inroad ; armed peace or neutrality. 
I shall not attempt to collect the duties and imposts by 
any armed invasion of any part of the country. 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 132. 
3. In lier., having the beaks, talons, horns, or 
teeth, or, of an arrow or lance, having the head, 
of the color specified : as, a lion gules armed or. 
The word is not used for the horns of a hart or 
buck. See attired. 4. In phys., furnished with 
an armature or a piece of iron so as to connect 
the poles, as a horseshoe magnet. 5. In lot., 
having prickles or thorns Armed at all points, 
(o) Completely equipped with offensive and defensive 
anus, according to the fashion of the time : equivalent to 
the French arme de pied en cap. See cuts under armor, 
(b) In her., dressed in complete plate-armor, but having 
the vizor open : said of a warrior used as a bearing or 
supporter.- Armed In flute. See j!u(A-Armed neu- 
trality the maintenance by a nation of an armed force 
held ready to repel any aggression on the part of belli; 
gerent nations between which it is neutral. Armed 
peace the condition of a country which in time of peace 
maintains its military establishments on a war footing, so 
as to be ready for war at any moment. Armed snip, 
a merchant ship taken into the service of a government 
for a particular occasion, and armed like a ship of war. 
Armed to the teeth, very fully or completely armed. 
On the rampart* of the fort stood Nicholas Koorn, 
armed to the teeth, flourishing a brass-hilted sword. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 251. 
Armenian (ar-me'ni-an), a. and n. [< L. Ar- 
mcnius, < Gr. 'Ap/^v?, < 'Apftevia, Armenia.] 
I. a. Pertaining to Armenia, a former kingdom 
of Asia lying between the Black and Caspian 
seas, northeast of Asia Minor, now included in 
Turkey, Persia, and Asiatic Russia, or to its 
inhabitants Armenian architecture, a term some- 
times applied to the form of Byzantine church architec- 
Armenian Architecture. 
Typical Church Flan, St. H'ropsirnah, near Etchmiadzin. 
AD. bema, or sanctuary; #, B' , parabemata ; B, prothesis; B , 
diakonikon; C, altar; D, apse; FT, veil occupying the place of 
the iconostasis ; G, dome and choir ; H, nave ; /, / , antiparabe- 
niata ; A", chief entrance ; /.. north door ; L', south door. 
ture usual in Armenia. The typical plan of such churches 
maintains a strict symmetry between the apsidal and 
western ends, having antiparabemata to correspond with 
the parabemata, and omitting the narthex. The central 
dome is often represented by a lofty tower. Armenian 
blue See blue. Armenian bole. See iwfea. Arme- 
nian cement, a cement made by soaking isinglass in water 
until it becomes soft, and then mixing it with spirit in 
which a little gum mastic and ammoniacum have been dis- 
solved It is used to unite pieces of broken glass, to re- 
pair precious stones, and to cement them to watch-cases 
and other ornaments. Armenian Church, the ancient 
national church of Armenia. It maintains that it was 
founded as early as A. D. 34 ; but while traces of Christian- 
ity are found previously to the fourth century, the con- 
version of the country as a whole was the work of St. 
Gregory the Illuminator, who began his evangelistic la- 
bors about the year 301 ; and from his name it is sometimes 
known also as the Gregorian Church. The Armenian 
Church has for the most part remained estranged from 
the orthodox Greek Church since the latter part of the 
fifth century, when it rejected the decrees of the Council 
of Chalcedon (A. D. 461). It has therefore been credited 
