A weapon, especially a firearm: troops bearing arms; ICBMs, bombs, and other nuclear arms.
A branch of a military force: infantry, armor, and other combat arms.
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Warfare: a call to arms against the invaders.
Military service: several million volunteers under arms; the profession of arms.
Heraldry Bearings.
Insignia, as of a state, an official, a family, or an organization.
arms
Heraldry Bearings.
Insignia, as of a state, an official, a family, or an organization.
v.
armed, arm·ing, arms
v.
intr.
To supply or equip oneself with weaponry.
To prepare oneself for warfare or conflict.
v.
tr.
To equip with weapons: armed themselves with loaded pistols; arm a missile with a warhead; arm a nation for war.
To equip with what is needed for effective action: tax advisers who were armed with the latest forms.
To provide with something that strengthens or protects: a space reentry vehicle that was armed with a ceramic shield.
To prepare (a weapon) for use or operation, as by releasing a safety device.
[From Middle English armes, weapons, from Old French, pl. of arme, weapon, from Latin arma, weapons; see ar- in Indo-European roots. V., Middle English armen, from Old French armer, from Latin armāre, from arma.] armed (ärmd) adj., arm'er n.
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