How do you spell Arming
Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
2) n. - 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.
3) n. - Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
4) n. - A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
5) n. - A branch of a tree.
6) n. - A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.
7) n. - The end of a yard; also, the part of an anchor which ends in the fluke.
8) n. - An inlet of water from the sea.
9) n. - A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.
10) n. - Fig.: Power; might; strength; support; as, the secular arm; the arm of the law.
11) n. - A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.
12) n. - A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.
13) v. t. - To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
14) v. t. - To furnish with arms or limbs.
15) v. t. - To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country.
16) v. t. - To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency; as, to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling.
17) v. t. - Fig.: To furnish with means of defense; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
18) v. i. - To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.
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