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Arms

Arms \Arms\, n. pl. [OE. armes, F. arme, pl. armes, fr. L. arma, pl., arms, orig. fittings, akin to armus shoulder, and E. arm. See Arm, n.]

  1. Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

    He lays down his arms, but not his wiles.
    --Milton.

    Three horses and three goodly suits of arms.
    --Tennyson.

  2. The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. ``Arms and the man I sing.''
    --Dryden.

  3. (Law) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
    --Cowell. Blackstone.

  4. (Her.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

  5. (Falconry) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
    --Halliwell.

    Bred to arms, educated to the profession of a soldier.

    In arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility.

    Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc.

    A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayonet, cartridge box and belt; frequently, the musket and bayonet alone.

    To arms! a summons to war or battle.

    Under arms, armed and equipped and in readiness for battle, or for a military parade.

    Arm's end,

    Arm's length,

    Arm's reach. See under Arm.

Wiktionary
arms

Etymology 1 n. (plural of arm English) Etymology 2

n. 1 (context pluralonly English) weapon. 2 (context heraldry English) Synonym for coat of arms. 3 (plural of arm English)Category:English plurals vb. (en-third-person singular of: arm)

WordNet
arms

  1. n. weapons considered collectively [syn: weaponry, implements of war, weapons system, munition]

  2. the official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat of arms, blazon, blazonry]

Wikipedia
Arms

Arms or ARMS may refer to:

  • Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body

Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:

ARMS (band)

ARMS is an American indie rock band, formed in New York in 2004. Originally a solo project created by ex- Harlem Shakes' guitarist Todd Goldstein, ARMS has since evolved into a four-piece band, with the inclusion of drummer Tlacael Esparza, bassist Matty Fasano, and keyboardist Dave Harrington. Goldstein handles guitar and vocal duties.

Arms (song)

"Arms" is a song by American singer-songwriter Christina Perri. The song was written by Perri herself, and serves as the second single from her debut album Lovestrong (2011). The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 94. The song's accompanying music video debuted on April 28, 2011 on VH1.

Arms (Bell X1 album)

Arms is the seventh studio album by Irish band Bell X1, scheduled for worldwide release on October 14. Recorded in Dublin and Donegal, Ireland, Arms is the follow up to 2013's much acclaimed Chop Chop, which was their third number-one album in Ireland and fourth consecutive album to be nominated for a Choice Music Prize.

Arms is a nine-song collection produced by the band, recorded by Tommy McLoughlin (from the Villagers) and Glenn Keating (from Jape), and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Jónsi) with Ross Dowling mixing the track "Out of Love". The band spent the summer of 2016 touring Ireland with headline shows at the Iveagh Gardens, Galway Arts Festival and Indiependence in Cork. The band previously completed an Irish acoustic tour in autumn 2015.

The artwork for the album was produced by Dutch artist, Mirjam Dijkema.

Usage examples of "arms".

It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who, settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused their name from the Alps to the Apennine.

Crete, or Candia, with Cyprus, and most of the smaller islands of Greece and Asia, have been subdued by the Turkish arms, whilst the little rock of Malta defies their power, and has emerged, under the government of its military Order, into fame and opulence.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors.

In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws, which it was their interest as well as duty to maintain.

The soldier possessed a free space for his arms and motions, and sufficient intervals were allowed, through which seasonable reinforcements might be introduced to the relief of the exhausted combatants.

Besides their arms, which the legionaries scarcely considered as an encumbrance, they were laden with their kitchen furniture, the instruments of fortification, and the provision of many days.

Confident in the strength of their mountains, they were the last who submitted to the arms of Rome, and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs.

Before they yielded to the Roman arms, they often disputed the field, and often renewed the contest.

The jurisdiction of that province extended over the ancient monarchies of Troy, Lydia, and Phrygia, the maritime countries of the Pamphylians, Lycians, and Carians, and the Grecian colonies of Ionia, which equalled in arts, though not in arms, the glory of their parent.

If, on the contrary, we study the growth of the Roman republic, we may discover that, notwithstanding the incessant demands of wars and colonies, the citizens, who, in the first census of Servius Tullius, amounted to no more than eighty-three thousand, were multiplied, before the commencement of the social war, to the number of four hundred and sixty-three thousand men, able to bear arms in the service of their country.

When the allies of Rome claimed an equal share of honors and privileges, the senate indeed preferred the chance of arms to an ignominious concession.

In Etruria, in Greece, and in Gaul, it was the first care of the senate to dissolve those dangerous confederacies, which taught mankind that, as the Roman arms prevailed by division, they might be resisted by union.

So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.

The provinces would soon have been exhausted of their wealth, if the manufactures and commerce of luxury had not insensibly restored to the industrious subjects the sums which were exacted from them by the arms and authority of Rome.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.