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Instruments or weapons of offense or defense. He lays down his arms, but not his wiles. Milton. Three horses and three goodly suits of arms. Tennyson.

with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

Twisted guts. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ascham.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak.

Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement. Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.

or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

y, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

A purple color in a nobleman's escutcheon, or coat of arms.

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.