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f small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.

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One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

is tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

A padded jacket or dress worn under armor, to protect the body from the effects of friction; also, a part of a woman's dress; a stomacher. [Obs.] Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril. [Obs.] But only vented up her umbriere. Spenser.

To puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor. "I'll unarm again." Shak.

Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.

To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.

Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton.

epresented as flying, or having the wings spread; as, an eagle volant. Volant piece (Anc. Armor), an adjustable piece of armor, for guarding the throat, etc., in a joust.

or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton.

ree from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. [Slander] may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.