Word Meanings - REREBRACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.

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• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• 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
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• 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,
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• 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.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• 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.
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
• MARMOROSIS
  The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.