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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Armory" Quotes from Famous Books

... youth, had made him so. For many years past the vast variety of works he had been obliged to consult in preparing his Dictionary had stored an uncommonly retentive memory with facts on all kinds of subjects; making it a perfect colloquial armory. "He had all his life," says Boswell, "habituated himself to consider conversation as a trial of intellectual vigor and skill. He had disciplined himself as a talker as well as a writer, making it a rule to impart whatever he knew in the most forcible language he could put it in, ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... the lower hall, which was used as an armory. His father, the visitors and the servants, who were all devoted to the Chamondrin family, followed him, while Antoinette stood watching in alarm ...

— Which? - or, Between Two Women • Ernest Daudet

... the time when she knew he would be absorbed in a game of chess with John Stone, and she would be safe from interruption for several hours if she wished, she went to Major Warfield's little armory in the closet adjoining his room, opened his pistol case and took from it a pair of revolvers, closed and locked the case, and withdrew and hid the key that they might not chance to be missed until she should have ...

— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... Colonel Taylor. He an' Mis' Kitty lived in that big place on Market Street where the soldiers lives now, (The W.L.I. Armory) but we was on the plantation across the ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... of the whole party, by giving them a new direction, while it was likely to produce no unpleasant results, every one was willing to enter into it; the girls bringing forth the firearms with an alacrity bordering on cheerfulness. Hutter's armory was well supplied, possessing several rifles, all of which were habitually kept loaded in readiness to meet any sudden demand for their use. On the present occasion it only remained to freshen the primings, and each ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

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