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Word Meanings - ARMORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Clad with armor.

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  • ARMORY
    fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. 1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory
  • ARMORED
    Clad with armor.
  • ARMORED CRUISER
    A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first
  • ARMOR-BEARER
    One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.
  • ARMORIAL
    Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4. (more info) arms, for armoieries, fr. OF. armoier to paint arms, coats of arms,
  • ARMORER
    1. One who makes or repairs armor or arms. 2. Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor. Shak. 3. One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc.
  • ARMORICAN
    A native of Armorica.
  • ARMORIC; ARMORICAN
    Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.
  • ARMORIST
    One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.
  • ARMOR
    1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed
  • ARMOR-PLATED
    Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times .
  • MARMORACEOUS
    Pertaining to, or like, marble.
  • TOP-ARMOR
    A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
  • MARMORATION
    A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.
  • MARMOROSIS
    The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.
  • MARMORATE; MARMORATED
    Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.
  • MARMORATUM OPUS
    A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.
  • MARMOREAL; MARMOREAN
    Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

 

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