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.
noun
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A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
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The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
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(chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
Examples of arming in a Sentence
She made a show of arming the laser gun.
Jade walked into Darkyn.s open chamber to find the demon arming himself for battle.
Darian exited and dressed in all black, arming himself with knives.
It revised the arming andorganization of the Statute of national militia, the lineal descendent of the old fyrd, cheser.
His arming of the forts at Alexandria was held to constitute a menace to the British fleet.
They sat and pulled out laser guns, arming them and waiting as the helo took them down the mountain again to their awaiting teams.
The experiment of arming the native Egyptians on a large scale does not seem to have been made before the campaign of 217, when Ptolemy IV.
A neutral government is bound - (i) to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming or equipping within its jurisdiction of any vessel, which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace, and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use; (2) not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men; (3) to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its jurisdiction to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligation and duties.
Each suit also includes two sword fighting lessons, a steel display stand, and a custom- fitted arming doublet undergarment of padded linen.
Labor's promises, from banning fox hunting to not arming oppressive regimes, have proved to be lies.
Great Achilles Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance.
At the grassroots level, individual families are arming themselves while communities have set up armed vigilantes and neighborhood watches.
However, ' arming ' would not rhyme with ' calling ', since the stressed vowels are different.
In 1 775, in the second revolutionary convention of Virginia, Henry, regarding war as inevitable, presented resolutions for arming the Virginia militia.
Only loading, down loading, arming and dearming evolutions are authorized to be conducted in the rearming area by the individual stores.
The key to successfully purchasing a laptop without the fear of being overwhelmed is arming yourself with the knowledge.
However, arming yourself with the right information and doing what you can to achieve success can turn out to be rewarding, if you've always envisioned yourself on the runway, in catalogs or on magazine covers.
Most women know what a challenge this can be, so arming yourself with a few tricks of the trade may just prove beneficial to you and your closet!
Juking and stiff arming is done with the left and right shoulder buttons, but your player's reaction is a bit slow.
The big night can cause plenty of stress, but arming yourself with some easy hairstyles for homecoming can alleviate some of it!
Arming yourself with a list of needs and compromising on items can make the shopping trip as smooth as possible.
Eating disorders are an increasing problem among young people, and the only effective measure of prevention seems to be arming them with the truth about these disorders before they develop.
During the War of 1812 he was active in equipping and arming the New York militia.
In 1886 a law was carried in either parliament creating a Landsturm, and providing for the arming and organization of the whole male population up to the age of forty-two in case of emergency, and in 1889 a small increase was made in the annual number of recruits.
In 1775 he became chairman of the committee of public safety for Orange county, and wrote its response to Patrick Henry's call for the arming of a colonial militia, and in the spring of 1776 he was chosen a delegate to the new Virginia convention, where he was on the committee which drafted the constitution for the state, and proposed an amendment (not adopted) which declared that "all men are equally entitled to the full and free exercise" of religion, and was more radical than the similar one offered by George Mason.
The arming of Egyptians in this campaign had a disturbing effect upon the native population of Egypt, so that rebellions were continuous for the next thirty years.
This process of arming the republic had begun before the Raid; after that event it was carried on with great energy and was directed against Great Britain.
In 1792 he placed 12,000 livres at the disposal of the Republic - "for the arming of forty or fifty fighters in the sacred cause of man against tyrants."
The defence of the country was next cared for by regulations for the arming of the whole nation, down to every one who owned the value of a cow, a measure far in advance of the old feudal levy.
While Richelieu was opposing the designs of the pope and of the Spaniards in the Valtellina, while he was arming the duke of Savoy and subsidizing Mansfeld in Germany, Henri, duc de Rohan, and his brother Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, the Protestant chiefs, took the initiative in a fresh revolt despite the majority of their party (1625).
Jenn finished arming herself and followed.