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b). -- Anchor stock (Naut.), the crossbar at the top of the shank at right angles to the arms. -- The anchor comes home, when it drags over the bottom as the ship drifts. -- Foul anchor, the anchor when it hooks, or is entangled with, another anchor, or with a cable or wreck, or when the slack cable entangled. -- T…

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

l means; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

The white color in coats of arms, intended to represent silver, or, figuratively, purity, innocence, beauty, or gentleness; -- represented in engraving by a plain white surface. Weale.

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. [Obs.] And make him with our pikes and partisans A grave: come, arm him. Shak. Arm your prize; I know you will not lose him. Two N. Kins.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

Bearing arms or weapons. [R.]

Bearing arms. [R.] They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms. The arming was now universal. Macaulay.

Power in arms. [R.] Johnson.

Powerful in arms; mighty in battle. The temple stood of Mars armipotent. Dryden.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

Destitute of arms or weapons.

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.

One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

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.