arms

noun
/ɑɹmz/US/ɑːmz/UK

Etymology

From Middle English armes, from Old French armes, from Latin arma (“weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-mo-, a suffixed form of *h₂er- (“to fit together”), hence ultimately cognate with etymology 2.

  1. derived from *h₂er-mo-
  2. derived from armes
  3. inherited from armes

Definitions

  1. Weaponry, weapons.

  2. A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an…

    A visual design composed according to heraldic rules, normally displayed upon an escutcheon and sometimes accompanied by other elements of an achievement

    • The arms of England are: gules, three lions passant gardant or.
    • The Metropolitan Electric trams bore the three seaxes of the Middlesex arms, with a crown above the shield, on a blue circle.
  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of arm

    • If the Duke arms himself for war, the king will not sit by idly!
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. plural of arm

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arms. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at arms. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at arms

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA