Part 637

<i>Jacob.</i>

<h1>Armigerous</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar*mig"er*ous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bearing arms.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>They belonged to the <b>armigerous</b> part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Armil</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar"mil</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>armilla</ets> a bracelet, fr. <ets>armus</ets> arm: cf. OF. <ets>armille</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A bracelet.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An ancient astronomical instrument.</def>

<note>&hand; When composed of one ring placed in the plane of the equator for determining the time of the equinoxes, it is called an <i>equinoctial armil</i>; when of two or more rings, one in the plane of the meridian, for observing the solstices, it is called a <i>solstitial armil</i>.</note>

<i>Whewell.</i>

<h1>Armilla</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar*mil"la</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Armillas</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, L. <plw>Armill\'91</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., a bracelet.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An armil.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.</def>

<h1>Armillary</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar"mil*la*ry</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>armillarius</ets>, fr. L. <ets>armilla</ets> arm ring, bracelet, fr. <ets>armus</ets> arm: cf. F. <ets>armillaire</ets>. See <er>Arm</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.</def>

<cs><col>Armillary sphere</col>, <cd>an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere.</cd></cs>

<i>Nichol.</i>

<h1>Arming</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Arm"ing</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>arming</b> was now universal. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.</def>

<i>Totten.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <plu>pl.</plu> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.</def>

<cs><col>Arming press</col> <fld>(Bookbinding)</fld>, <cd>a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.</cd></cs>

<h1>Arminian</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar*min"i*an</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under <er>Arminian</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Arminian</h1> <Xpage=82>

<hw>Ar*min"i*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).</def>

<note>The Arminian doctrines are: 1. Conditional election and reprobation, in opposition to absolute predestination. 2. Universal redemption, or that the atonement was made by Christ for all mankind, though none but believers can be partakers of the benefit. 3. That man, in order to exercise true faith, must be regenerated and renewed by the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the gift of God. 4. That man may resist divine grace. 5. That man may relapse from a state of grace.</note>