Crossword clues for arming
arming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arm \Arm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Armed; p. pr. & vb. n. Arming.] [OE. armen, F. armer, fr. L. armare, fr. arma, pl., arms. See arms.]
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To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.]
And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him.
--Shak.Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him.
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To furnish with arms or limbs. [R.]
His shoulders broad and strong, Armed long and round.
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To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
Abram . . . armed his trained servants.
--Gen. xiv. 1 4. To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.
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Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
Arm yourselves . . . with the same mind.
--1 Pet. iv. 1.To arm a magnet, to fit it with an armature.
Arming \Arm"ing\, n.
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The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
The arming was now universal.
--Macaulay. (Naut.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.
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pl. (Naut.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) 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 se
2 The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict 3 (context nautical chiefly in the plural English) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. v
(present participle of arm English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "arming".
Arming her bola, and commanding those who had bolas of their own to do the same, Lonit drew in a deep, steadying breath.
The bombardier of each aircraft had to go down into the bomb bay and, walking along the narrow catwalk between the bombs and holding his portable oxygen bottle in one hand, pull out the arming pins of his bombs.
President Lincoln determined to make a third, and last, attempt to avert the necessity for thus emancipating and arming the Slaves.
Little over five months had passed, since the occurrence of the great event in the history of the American Nation mentioned in the preceding Chapter, before the Freed Negro, now bearing arms in defense of the Union and of his own Freedom, demonstrated at the first attack on Port Hudson the wisdom of emancipating and arming the Slave, as a War measure.
Farm, Fair Oaks, and numerous other battle-fields, in Virginia and elsewhere, right down to Appomattox--the African soldier fought courageously, fully vindicating the War-wisdom of Abraham Lincoln in emancipating and arming the Race.
Read the passage in the eulogy on Choate where he describes him arming himself in the entire panoply of his gorgeous rhetoric--and you will get some far-away conception of the power of this magician.
He fled towards the Alps, with the humble hope, not of arming the Visigoths in his cause, but of securing his person and treasures in the sanctuary of Julian, one of the tutelar saints of Auvergne.
The autumn night was chilly even though the wind had died, but Morrone felt himself sweating under his mail and arming doublet as he had not since the Battle of the Hooey River.
Arming himself with the stockpile Pig had abandoned, Knoop joined the struggle.
I rang Sandra on the way to the launderette, having taken the precaution of arming myself with a supply of change for the telephone.
How, then, can I possibly arrive at the conclusion that the pestle is a proof of arming and premeditating?
Duke of Tilth arming runaway Chalcedean slaves and teaching them military tactics to Kettricken being called on to mediate between Lord Carolsin of Ashlake, who claimed that Lord Dignity of Timbery had seduced and stolen his daughter.
The remainder of the nation embraced the desperate expedient of arming their slaves, a hardy race of hunters and herdsmen, by whose tumultuary aid they revenged their defeat, and expelled the invader from their confines.
Number Ten wrested a parang from an adversary, and acting upon his example the other creatures were not long in arming themselves in a similar manner.
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.