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; to stick; to be persistent, as a disease. -- To hang on the lips, words, etc., to be charmed by eloquence. -- To hang out. (a) To be hung out so as to be displayed; to project. (b) To be unyielding; as, the juryman hangs out against an agreement. [Colloq.] (c) to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers ten…

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong. Though yet he never harmed me. Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton.

severe; rough. Clarence is so harsh, so blunt. Shak. Though harsh the precept, yet the charmed. Dryden.

Power; armed force. My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. Shak.

A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called. Loudon.

e [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head. Denham.

A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; - - used to block up a passage.

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and with colors flying. -- Law, or Code, of honor, certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among persons of fashion, and which are founded on a regard to reputation. Paley. -- Maid of honor, a lady of rank,…

f ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier. Milford.

Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.

Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

In an impenetrable manner or state; imperviously. "Impenetrably armed." Milton. "Impenetrably dull." Pope.

A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa]

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments. Marshall.

A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland.