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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

... whom this ready grave," Said Sigismond, "you dog, whom naught can save!" Aware was Eviradnus that if he Turned for a blade unto the armory, He would be instant pierced—what can he do? The moment is for him supreme. But, lo! He glances now at Ladislaeus dead, And with a smile triumphant and yet dread, And air of lion caged to whom is shown Some loophole of ...

— Poems • Victor Hugo

... led Beryl through a long room, fitted up as a library and armory, and pausing before an open door, waved her into the adjoining apartment. One swift glance showed her the heavy canopied bedstead in one corner, the arch-shaped glass door leading out upon the iron veranda; and at an oblong table in ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... old-fashioned wardrobe. This served not to ward Whispering Smith's robes, which hung for the most part on his back, but to accommodate his rifles, of which it contained an array that only a practised man could understand. The wardrobe was more, however, than an armory. Beside the guns that stood racked in precision along the inner wall, McCloud had once, to his surprise, seen a violin. It appeared out of keeping in such an atmosphere and rather the antithesis of force and violence than a complement for it. And again, though the rifles were disquietingly ...

— Whispering Smith • Frank H. Spearman

... The insurance company raised the rate and while he was dickering with the company, the great plant was swept away in a midnight fire. Mr. Schumacher was a very earnest temperance man and was to introduce me for the W.C.T.U. in the large armory the Sunday after the fire. It was supposed he would not be present because of the severe strain and his great loss. But prompt to the minute he entered the door, and 'mid the applause of sympathetic friends he ...

— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain

... The armory is a most remarkable room; it is the collection of the author of Waverly; and to enumerate all the articles which are here assembled, would require a volume. Take a few particulars. The old wooden lock of the Tolbooth of Selkirk; Queen Mary's offering-box, a small iron ark or ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors - Vol. II Great Britain And Ireland, Part Two • Francis W. Halsey

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