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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.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray.

To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth. Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. Dryden.

Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless. Thy power is full naked. Chaucer. Behold my bosom naked to your swords. Addison.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love. Sir P. Sidney. Steely iron, a compound of iron containing less than one half of one per cent of carbon.

th; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation. "On their whole host I flew unarmed." Milton. The whole race of mankind. Shak.

of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a…