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To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy. Shak. Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them. Acts xx. 1.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell.

of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

eather. Both were of shining steel, and wrought so pure, As might the strokes of two such arms endure. Dryden.

and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.

To wind about; to encircle. In the circle of his arms Enwound us both. Tennyson.

out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

ental area. Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.

Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young.

A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.

e of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

To conquer; to subdue. [Obs.] Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton.

by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.

To exercise; to train by practice. The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. Harte. To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of religions truth.

to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture. Evelyn. He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.

To hesitate in purpose or action. Ere her native king Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. Shak.

on. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.