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To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Of or pertaining to the antibrachium, or forearm.

That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]

One of the bones of either the forearm or shank, the epipodialia being the radius, ulna, tibia, and fibula.

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

A cover for the wrist and forearm. To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]

To forearm. [R.]

That motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward.

ction with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radiomuscular, radiocarpal.

The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

, odor, etc. -- Secondary quills or remiges (Zoöl.), the quill feathers arising from the forearm of a bird and forming a row continuous with the primaries; -- called also secondaries. See Illust. of Bird. -- Secondary rocks or strata (Geol.), those lying between the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see Primary ro…

o which the piece is held vertically at the shoulder, with the hammer resting on the left forearm, which is passed horizontally across the body in front; also, the position assumed in response to this command.

es on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.

A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.

The postaxial bone of the forearm, or branchium, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. See Radius.