Crossword clues for armories
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Armory \Ar"mo*ry\, n.; pl. Armories. [OF. armaire, armarie, F. armoire, fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. armoiries. See Armorial, Ambry.]
A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
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Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears.
--Milton. A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]
Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
--Spenser.-
That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.
The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin.
--Cussans.
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (plural of armory English)
Usage examples of "armories".
However, one can learn nothing of any successes that Marlet might have encountered at the Armories, for when he left the Techno riverboat at Kelph and boarded a coach for his new post, he vanished from human chronicles entirely.
The General had picked the Armories as the site for the Office of Procurement.
In my view the best possible location for the Office of Procurement is still the Armories and if you feel so strongly about it you can hire someone else whose methods are less exacting than mine.
He handed Moresly a letter of authority from George XXVIII authorizing the establishment of his Office, its immunity from normal Governmental procedures, and a blanket requisition for anything that might be needed to put the Armories into proper condition.
He saw that Moresly was moving along nicely at the Armories and was already beginning to turn out plans for dummy transformers and real power lines that could be set up at the rate of a mile a night.
The paper merely asked approval to refurbish some of the lower levels of the Armories for the production of modern weapons.
It turned out that the Armories and the front organization, the Office of Procurement, were operating virtually without any supervision whatsoever.
Of course, no one outside of the Armories had any way of knowing that all seven of the names and all four of the faces belonged to Moresly, Toriman's man.
The Armories were as far as they got before internal strife and newly developed radiations made the tunnels useless: but this was many ages ago, when the weapons and concepts of the First World were still very much in evidence.
It has been estimated that over a score of major wars had been fought with possession of the Armories as their sole object.
While the Armories still retained enough of their former volume and appontments to make an impression on contemporary eyes, most of the caverns' riches lay walled up and protected behind tons of rock.
It was thus only slightly incredible that the Armories reported that only three men had been lost in its modification.
The Admiralty and the Armories were supposed to take care of the rest.
There are the Armories which somebody set up and secretly geared to assist in the take-over of the Ship and the Caroline.
Using the big trucks and equipment and the crude but serviceable weapons that the Armories had distributed to the People's militia, Coral quickly (and sometimes quite literally) crushed the rebels.