verb
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To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
verb
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To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
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The king armed his knights with swords and shields.
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To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
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Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work.
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To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
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to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling
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To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
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To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
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To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
adjective
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(sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
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nuclear-armed
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(of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
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Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
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Having prickles or thorns.
Examples of armed in a Sentence
He was armed with several knives, and his silver eyes were fiery.
I'll give them armed force...
Armed with her notes, she emerged from the library.
The palace contains no moat, or armed guards, nor do I detect any sophisticated security system.
He was armed but hadn't yet replaced the trench coat she cost him soon after they met.
She peered through her eyelashes at two armed men stopped in front of her.
She'll be armed, and I'm leaving her a distress beacon.
She armed herself, not willing to be caught off guard, then joined her father in the tiny foyer.
He was like a massive shadow among the sunny forest, dressed all in black and armed as if for battle, even when coming to see her.
Not that he wasn't armed; he wore a few sheaths strapped to his body.
He stalked to the locker room and returned a few minutes later, armed and dressed.
Large, dark eyes were wary and guarded, and she was openly armed.
He drew closer once more, pausing on the opposite side of the counter, watching her in a way that left her feeling as if she was standing naked in his living room, armed with a gun.
He said the peasants were obdurate and that at the present moment it would be imprudent to "overresist" them without an armed force, and would it not be better first to send for the military?
The limbs are five-toed, with the third and fourth toes of the front pair armed with enormous digging claws; FIG.
But as the captain of the " Endeavour " ordered out the pinnace and prepared to land, the natives threw off their nonchalance; for on the boat approaching the shore, two men, each armed with a bundle of spears, presented themselves on a projecting rock and made threatening signs to the strangers.
Ultimately he rose to high rank in the newly organized imperial government, but in 1873 he retired from the cabinet by way of protest against its decision not to take armed action against Korea.
From time to time cannot, however, be taken as typical of their race, and other specimens are armed.
He declared, when answering a complaint that a certain captain in his regiment was a better preacher than fighter, that he who prayed best would fight best, and that he knew nothing could" give the like courage and confidence as the knowledge of God in Christ will."The superiority of these men - more intelligent than the common soldiers, better disciplined, better trained, better armed, excellent horsemen and fighting for a great cause - not only over the other parliamentary troops but over the royalists, was soon observed in battle.
The whole land was full of violence, the very bishops storming rich monasteries at the head of armed retainers.
Most of the rajas remained loyal; and the capture of the town of Kotah, which had been held by the mutineers of that state, in March 1858, marked the extinction of armed rebellion.
The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobal, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460.
Invariably a foreigner, elected for a year with power of life and death and control of the armed force, but subject to a strict account at the expiration of his office, the podest might be compared to a dictator invested with limited authority.
It is defended by several batteries armed with modern heavy guns.
The people unhesitatingly awarded their "champion" a bodyguard of fifty men (afterwards four hundred) armed with clubs.
In addition there are governors-general, generally placed over several governments and armed with more extensive powers, usually including the command of the troops within the limits of their jurisdiction.
Ispravniki and stanovoi alike are armed with large and ill-defined powers; and, since they are for the most part illiterate and wholly ignorant of the law, they have proved exasperating engines of oppression.
Towards the end of the reign of Alexander II., the government, in order to preserve order in the country districts, also created a special class of mounted rural policemen (uryadniki, from uriad, order), who, armed with power to arrest all suspects on the spot, rapidly became the terror of the countryside.
The infantry and rifles are armed with small-bore magazine rifles, and the active artillery have steel breech-loaders with extreme ranges of 4150 to 4700 yds.
Thus, appeared the grand-prince of Suzdal or Vladimir, of Tver,, of Ryazan and of Moscow - all irreconcilable rivals with little or no feeling of blood-relationship. The more ambitious and powerful among them aspired not to succeed but to subdue the others and to take possession of their territory, and the armed.
For this purpose he organized, outside the regular administration, a large corps of civil officials and armed retainers, whose duty it was to obey him implicitly in all things; and with this force, which rose rapidly from 1000 to 6000 men, he acted like a savage invader in a conquered country.
In 1387 he supported his uncle Thomas, duke of Gloucester, in his armed opposition to Richard II.
I was not armed by nature and education with the intrepid energy of mind and voice - ' Vincentem strepitus et natum rebus agendis.'
His son Murkertagh, who gained a great victory over the Norse in 926, is celebrated for his triumphant march round Ireland, the Moirthimchell Eiream, in which, starting from Portglenone on the Bann, he completed a circuit of the island at the head of his armed clan, returning with many captive kings and chieftains.
The final rupture seems to have arisen on the question of the declaration of "the armed neutrality of the North;" but we know that Potemkin and the English ambassador, James Harris (afterwards 1st earl of Malmesbury), were both working against him some time before that.
He returned a fugitive to find the nation in armed rebellion.
The senate of Rome under the influence of Antony and Octavian ratified the claims of Herod, and after some delay lent him the armed force necessary to make them good.
Pilate came up to Jerusalem and dispersed the petitioners by means of disguised soldiers armed with clubs.
Cumanus armed the Samaritans, and, with them and his own troops, defeated these Jewish marauders.
When Eleazar opened the temple-gates to admit those who wished to worship God, John of Giscala introduced some of his own men, fully armed under their garments, and so got possession of the Temple.
The Epitrope was at first nothing more than a handful of discontented politicians who had failed to find places in the administration, but some slight reverses which it succeeded in inflicting on the Turkish troops brought thousands of armed Christians to its side, and in April 1896 it found itself strong enough to invest the important garrison town of Vamos.
In order to take possession of his new see, he had to brave the wrath of the duke of Burgundy, override the resistance of the clergy and bourgeoisie, and even withstand an armed attack on the part of several lords; but his protector, the duke of Orleans, had his investiture performed by Wenceslaus, king of the Romans.
A gizzard is present in a few forms. The buccal cavity is sometimes armed with jaws.
There is no armed protrusible pharynx, such as exists in some other Chaetopods.
The M`Leod case' in which the state of New York insisted on trying a British subject, with whose trial the Federal government had no power to interfere, while the British govern - ment had declared that it would consider conviction and execu - tion a casus belli; the exercise of the hateful right of search by British vessels on the coast of Africa; the Maine boundary, as to which the action of a state might at any time bring the Federal government into armed collision with Great Britain - all these at once met the new secretary, and he felt that he had no right to abandon his work for party reasons.
The archdeacon had thus become, on the one hand, the oculus episcopi, but on the other hand, armed as he was with powers of imposing penance and, in case of stubborn disobedience, of excommunicating offenders, his power tended more and more to grow at the bishop's expense.
It is a military town, with provision stores, an arsenal and an arms workshop. Its walls are armed with steel guns.
He had chosen and knew his ground, lying between St Ninians and the Bannock, a petty burn, yet sufficient to produce marshes dangerous to heavily armed horsemen, while from the rising ground on his right the enemy's advance was seen.
Here we may notice that the perpetuation of the republic by means of the armed forces tended to exalt the army at the expense of the civil authorities.
The return of a large part of the armed forces from Italy and Germany, where they had lived on the liberated inhabitants, also threw new burdens on the Republic; and it was clear that French money alone would not suffice to fit out an armada.