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exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.

Capable of being farmed.

An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. Fairholt. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.

To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive. [He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shak. Flee fornication. 1 Cor. vi. 18. So fled his enemies my warlike father. Shak.…

A kindof flyboat; a storeship. Armed en flûte ( (Nav.), partially armed.

Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." Chaucer.

o load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. Fairfax.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast. A. Chalmers.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

An armed policeman in France. Thackeray.

A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks. Gizzard shad (Zoöl.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value. -- To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. [Low] Hudibras. -- To stick in one's gizzard, to be di…

Milton. As we are now glad to behold your eyes. Shak. Glad am I that your highness is so armed. Shak. Glad on 't, glad of it. [Colloq.] Shak.

ly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

le plant (Bot.), a South African herb (Herpagophytum leptocarpum) having the woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle, causing intense annoyance. -- Grapple shot (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or to hold in…

o deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus. [Written also hackbutter.] Froude.

One who is armed with a halberd. Strype.