Word Meanings - WEAPONRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

WEAPONRY
Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
ARRAY
arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. reithi rigging, harness; akin to E. 1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement;
ARRAYER
One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.
DISARRAY
1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.
DISARRAYMENT
Disorder. Feltham.
WARRAY
To make war upon. Fairfax. "When a man warrayeth truth." Chaucer.
ARRAIMENT; ARRAYMENT
Clothes; raiment.