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st, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. Milton. Under arms. (Mil.) (a) Drawn up fully armed and equipped. (b) Enrolled for military service; as, the state has a million men under arms. -- Under canvas. (a) (Naut.) Moved or propelled by sails; -- said of any vessel with her sail set,…

To let below the value. All my farms were underlet. Smollett.

l.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair. Against unequal arms to fight in pain. Milton. Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries. John Worthington. To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal. Shak.

, wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with ornaments, badges of rank, sash, side arms, etc. -- Uniform sword, an officer's sword of the regulation pattern prescribed for the army or navy.

withstand so many years the Roman puissance. Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing,…

nd them that did rebel upon want. Bacon. This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms. Addison. Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. Pope. He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the…

To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [R.] Shak. Cowper.

Obs.] The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. Sir T. More.

eaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war. Brande & C.

Strong; powerful; efficient. [Obs.] "Perhaps more valid arms . . . may serve to better us." Milton.

anning leather, or the like. Let him produce his vase and tubs, in opposition to heaps of arms and standards. Addison.

One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

Having movable joints resembling vertebræ; -- said of the arms ophiurans.

Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

Cor. xv. 54. God on our side, doubt not of victory. Shak. Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation. Bolingbroke.

ourage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope.

without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.

zling streaks the vivid lightnings play. Cowper. Arts which present, with all the vivid charms of painting, the human face and human form divine. Bp. Hobart.

issiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. Milton. Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. Byron.