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

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

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

rial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countr…

One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. Evelyn.

One who arraigns. Coleridge.

ccount to faults; accusation. In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden.

One who arranges. Burke.

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.

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.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

One who arrests.

ng of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

To happen or occur. [Archaic] Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller.

One who arrives.

- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -- The Thirty-nine Articles, statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.

One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]