Definition of arms

"arms" in the noun sense

1. arm

a human limb technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb

2. arm, branch, limb

any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

"the arm of the record player"

"an arm of the sea"

"a branch of the sewer"

3. weapon, arm, weapon system

any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

"he was licensed to carry a weapon"

4. arm

the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person

5. branch, subdivision, arm

a division of some larger or more complex organization

"a branch of Congress"

"botany is a branch of biology"

"the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"

6. sleeve, arm

the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm

"arms" in the verb sense

1. arm, build up, fortify, gird

prepare oneself for a military confrontation

"The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"

"troops are building up on the Iraqi border"

2. arm

supply with arms

"The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"

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Quotations for arms

Side arms. [ French ]

With open arms. [ French ]

Arms and the man I sing. [ Virgil ]

Their rage finds them arms. [ Virgil ]

Arms are the props of peace. [ Motto ]

By force and arms; by main force.

Imparadised in one another's arms. [ Milton ]

It was fear that first put on arms. [ Proverb ]

Laws are silent in the midst of arms. [ John Bate ]

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]

Fatal ambition! say what wondrous charms
Delude mankind to toil for thee in arms? [ Rowe ]

Good luck reaches farther than long arms. [ Proverb ]

All the arms of England will not arm fear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. [ Proverb ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

A lord without riches is a soldier without arms. [ Proverb ]

Work breaks an idle fellow's legs, arms and back. [ Proverb ]

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]

It becomes a wise man to try negotiation before arms. [ Terence ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

The principal foundation of all states are good laws and good arms. [ Machiavelli ]

He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. [ Luc ]

The personal pronoun I should be the coat of arms of some individuals. [ Rivarol ]

I madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. [ Virgil ]

Valor is stability, not of arms and of legs, but of courage and the soul. [ Montaigne ]

It is one of heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in ones arms. [ Goethe ]

Would I were in that country where they break men's arms that talk of work. [ Proverb ]

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. [ Victor Hugo ]

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. [ William Shakespeare ]

Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms! [ De Finod ]

He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. [ Rousseau ]

Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. [ Rousseau ]

The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]

Let literature be an honorable augmentation to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon. [ S. T. Coleridge ]

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. [ Emerson ]

Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. [ Virgil ]

He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]

Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. [ Virgil ]

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands. [ Ovid ]

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. [ Emerson ]

Rules may teach us not to raise the arms above the head; but if passion carries them, it will be well done; passion knows more than art. [ Baron ]

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. [ Horace ]

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. [ John Ruskin ]

Discouragement is a passion, the most dangerous of all: it takes from us all our arms, all our forces, and abandons us without pity to the snares of voluptuousness. [ Alfred Mercier ]

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. [ Bulwer ]

Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go Whoa! Whoa! and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness. [ Johnson ]

Over Under. These words have various meanings besides the designation of mere locality, and are often misapplied. The terms under oath, under hand and seal, under arms, under his own signature, etc., are fully established and authorized forms of expression, which do not concern the relative positions of the persons and things indicated, but are idiomatic. Hence, over his own signature, is an unjustifiable phrase, despite the fact that the signature is really at the bottom of the instrument signed. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]

arms in Scrabble®

The word arms is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters arms:

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arms in Words With Friends™

The word arms is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters arms:

MARS
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Word Growth involving arms

Shorter words in arms

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Longer words containing arms

alarms

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barms

crossarms

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disarms

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