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noun

Armory n. (pl. armories)

A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.

Armor; defensive and offensive arms. "Celestial armory, shields, helms, and spears."

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. (U.S.)

Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.

That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor. "The science of heraldry, or, more justly speaking, armory, which is but one branch of heraldry, is, without doubt, of very ancient origin."

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"Armory" Quotes from Famous Books

... armory. He is a peck of fun. This morning he left for the North, and do you think the grate Mr. Impudence did not buss us both; Aileen because she is his cousin a hundred times removed and me because (what a reason!) "my eyes dared him." Of course I was in a vast rage, which seemed to hily delight ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... Egavine," he announced presently, "your boy's a regular armory! Two blasters, a pencil-beam, a knife, and the sap ... All right, Quist. Go over and sit down with the doctor." He watched the little man move dejectedly to the table, then fitted the assorted lethal devices carefully into one of his coat pockets, brought the ...

— The Star Hyacinths • James H. Schmitz

... was aimed at a great variety of industries, it seemed to be peculiarly effective in the theater, hotel, restaurant, and publishing business, and in the clothing and cigar trades. For sheer arbitrary coerciveness, nothing in the armory of the union is so effective as the boycott. A flourishing business finds its trade gone overnight. Leading customers withdraw their patronage at the union's threat. The alert picket is the harbinger of ruin, and the union black list is as ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... an old saying, and a true one, prevalent in those days, that a monastery without a library was like a castle without an armory, Clastrum sine armario, quasi castrum sine armamentario. See letter of Gaufredi of St. Barbary to Peter Mangot, Martene Thes. Nov. Anecd., tom. ...

— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather

... was I, on the other hand, in arranging, with the help of our domestic (a tailor by trade), an armory for the service of our plays and tragedies, which we ourselves performed with delight when we had outgrown the puppets. My playfellows, too, prepared for themselves such armories, which they considered to be quite as fine and good as mine; but I had made provision, not for the wants of ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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