Word Meanings - ARMOR-BEARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.

Related words: (words related to ARMOR-BEARER)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ARMORY
  fr. L. armarium place for keeping arms; but confused with F. 1. A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. 2. Armor: defensive and offensive arms. Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears. Milton. 3. A manufactory
• ARMORED
  Clad with armor.
• ARMORED CRUISER
  A man-of-war carrying a large coal supply, and more or less protected from the enemy's shot by iron or steel armor. There is no distinct and accepted classification distinguishing armored and protected cruisers from each other, except that the first
• ARMIGEROUS
  Bearing arms. They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.
• ARMOR-BEARER
  One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54.
• ARMORIAL
  Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family. Figures with armorial signs of race and birth. Wordsworth. Armorial bearings. See Arms, 4. (more info) arms, for armoieries, fr. OF. armoier to paint arms, coats of arms,
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• ARMORER
  1. One who makes or repairs armor or arms. 2. Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor. Shak. 3. One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc.
• ARMIGER
  Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.
• ARMORICAN
  A native of Armorica.
• ARMORIC; ARMORICAN
  Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• ARMORIST
  One skilled in coat armor or heraldry. Cussans.
• ARMOR
  1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• ARMOR-PLATED
  Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times .
• MARMORACEOUS
  Pertaining to, or like, marble.
• TOP-ARMOR
  A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
• MARMORATION
  A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.
• MARMOROSIS
  The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.
• MARMORATE; MARMORATED
  Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.
• MARMORATUM OPUS
  A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.