Armlet (n.) Armor for the arm.
Armoniac (a.) Ammoniac.
Armor (n.) Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
Armor (n.) Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.
Armor-bearer (n.) One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.
Armored (a.) Clad with armor.
Armorer (n.) One who makes or repairs armor or arms.
Armorer (n.) Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor.
Armorer (n.) One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc.
Armorial (a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.
Armoric (a.) Alt. of Armorican
Armorican (a.) Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people.
Armorican (n.) The language of the Armoricans, a Celtic dialect which has remained to the present times.
Armorican (n.) A native of Armorica.
Armorist (n.) One skilled in coat armor or heraldry.
Armor-plated (a.) Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
Armories (pl. ) of Armory
Armory (n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
Armory (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.
Armory (n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
Armory (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.
Armozeen (n.) Alt. of Armozine
Armozine (n.) A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
Armpit (n.) The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.
Armrack (n.) A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
Arms (n.) Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
Arms (n.) The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.
Arms (n.) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
Arms (n.) 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.
Arms (n.) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
Armure (n.) Armor.
Armure (n.) A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.
Army (n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.
Army (n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.
Army (n.) A great number; a vast multitude; a host.
Army worm () A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.
Army worm () The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton.
Arna (n.) Alt. of Arnee
Arnee (n.) The wild buffalo of India (Bos, or Bubalus, arni), larger than the domestic buffalo and having enormous horns.
Arnatto (n.) See Annotto.
Arnica (n.) A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.
Arnicin (n.) An active principle of Arnica montana. It is a bitter resin.
Arnicine (n.) An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.
Arnot (n.) Alt. of Arnut
Arnut (n.) The earthnut.
Arnotto (n.) Same as Annotto.
Aroid (a.) Alt. of Aroideous
Aroideous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Arum family of plants.
Aroint (interj.) Stand off, or begone.
Aroint (v. t.) To drive or scare off by some exclamation.
Aroma (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee.
Aroma (n.) Fig.: The fine diffusive quality of intellectual power; flavor; as, the subtile aroma of genius.
Aromatic (a.) Alt. of Aromatical
Aromatical (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.
Aromatic (n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.
Aromatization (n.) The act of impregnating or secting with aroma.
Aromatized (imp. & p. p.) of Aromatize
Aromatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aromatize
Aromatize (v. t.) To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.
Aromatizer (n.) One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic.
Aromatous (a.) Aromatic.
Aroph (n.) A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies.
Arose () The past or preterit tense of Arise.
Around (adv.) In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.
Around (adv.) In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.
Around (adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place.
Around (prep.) On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.
Around (prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner.
Arousal (n.) The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.
Aroused (imp. & p. p.) of Arouse
Arousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arouse
Arouse (v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.
Arow (adv.) In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order.
Aroynt (interj.) See Aroint.
Arpeggio (n.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.
Arpent (n.) Alt. of Arpen
Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.
Arpentator (n.) The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor.
Arpine (n.) An arpent.
Arquated (a.) Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved.
Arquebus (n.) Alt. of Arquebuse
Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.
Arquebusade (n.) The shot of an arquebus.
Arquebusade (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds.
Arquebusier (n.) A soldier armed with an arquebus.
Arquifoux (n.) Same as Alquifou.
Arrach (n.) See Orach.
Arrack (n.) A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.
Arragonite (n.) See Aragonite.
Arraigned (imp. & p. p.) of Arraign
Arraigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arraign
Arraign (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
Arraign (v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
Arraign (n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
Arraign (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
Arraigner (n.) One who arraigns.
Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.
Arraignment (n.) A calling to an account to faults; accusation.
Arraiment (v. t.) Alt. of Arrayment