Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing arms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Bearing arms or weapons.
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- adjective rare Bearing
arms orweapons .
Etymologies
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Latin armifer; arma arms + ferre to bear.
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Examples
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n. obsession with numbers, especially compulsion to count things. arithmometer, armiferous adj. - carrying weapons or arms. adj. - like, pertaining to or composed of rings. armillary sphere, celestial globe composed only of rings marking equator, tropics, etc.
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mollusque commented on the word armiferous
Bearing arms or weapons.
January 6, 2008