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The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

f the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

ny one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant.

To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country. Abram . . . armed his trained servants. Gen. xiv. 14.

Great as a man's arm. [Obs.] A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.

framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

As much as the arm can hold.

One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

awk from the thigh to the foot. Halliwell. Bred to arms, educated to the profession of a soldier. -- In arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility. -- Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc. -- A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayonet, cartridge…

de; a host. An army of good words. Shak. Standing army, a permanent army of professional soldiers, as distinguished from militia or volunteers.

s its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their…

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

A barbarous word used by the old chemists to designate various medical remedies. [Obs.]

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers. Prescott.

ne who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.