Definitions
1.verbTo take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
2.verbTo supply with armour or (later especially) weapons."The king armed his knights with swords and shields."
3.verbTo prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate."Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work."
4.verbTo cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency."to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling"
5.verbTo furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
6.verbTo take up weapons; to arm oneself.
7.verbTo fit (a magnet) with an armature.
8.nounA piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
9.nounThe act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
10.noun(chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.