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ron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery. Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc. -- Submarine, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.…

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

plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

Clad with armor.

ng a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first have more or heavier armor than the second.

One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4.

Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.

A native of Armorica.

One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.

Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.

sh thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.…

An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.