Ärmed, p. a.
(ärmd), p. a. 1. Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection. “An armed host.” Dryden.
Sense 2. Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
Sense 3. (Her.) Of a different color from the rest of the body, as the beaks, talons, horns, or feet of birds and beasts of prey. Burke.
Armed in flute (Naut.). A ship is armed in flute, i. e., after the manner of a transport, when part of her guns have been taken out for the sake of making room, and her effective armament is thus reduced below that at which she rates.—Armed neutrality, the condition of affairs when a nation assumes a threatening position, and maintains an armed force to repel any aggression on the part of belligerent nations between which it is neutral. Such an armed neutrality existed in the case of several European nations in 1780, during the war between the United States and England. Encyc. Amer.