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One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.

An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. Shak.

e of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay. We ourselves will go ready armed. Num. xxxii. 17.

A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.

Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight. Repelled the victors. Dryden.

mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.

tion; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the philosophers." Bp. Stillingfleet. Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. DRyden.

A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.

Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

r municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

A soldier armed with a rifle.

ongreve. It may be used either in the field or for bombardment; in the former case, it is armed with shells or case shot; in the latter, with a combustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. "And ye dwelled safe." 1 Sam. xii. 11. They escaped all safe all safe to land. Acts xxvii. 44. Established in a safe, unenvied throne. Milton.…

A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver. Shak.

Unharmed. R. L. Stevenson. He, too, . . . is to be dismissed scathless. Sir W. Scott.