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armoury, -ory|ˈɑːmərɪ|
Forms: 4 armurie, 5–6 armery, armorye, -orie, -ary, 6– armory, armoury.
[Perh. orig. a. OF. armoierie, armoirie. But from the earliest period treated as a derivative of armour n., and spelt like it armurie, armery, armory, armoury. With senses 3–5, cf. also OF. armeurerie, now armurerie, the office or store of the armeurier, arsenal (in which sense Godefroy has also armoirie). By some, in 16th c., referred to L. armārium (see ambry), and spelt armary. As armour was, in 16th c., often written armor, the spelling armory was common down to the present century. Cf. armory.]
1. Armour collectively. arch.
1330R. Brunne 194 If I may be auaile of hors or amurie. 1400Griffith in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 2. I. 6, I boȝt armery..and horses, and other araement. 1577Harrison England ii. v. 115 Armorie meet for their defense and service. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. i. 27 That armory, Wherein ye have great glory wonne this day. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 553 Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Speares. 1783Cowper Task v. 139 The armory of Winter. 1802Wordsw. Sonn. Liberty i. xvi, In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old.
†2. An armed force. Obs.
c1400Syr Tryam. 49 The kyng bad ordeygne hys armoryes, Knyghtys, squyers, and palfrays, Alle redy for to goo. c1532Ld. Berners Huon 523 That with an armeri al ye haue passed, & taken castels.
3. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
1538Leland Itin. IV. 54 A great large Tour caullid White Tour: wherin is now the Kinges Armary. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 11 The goodliest weapons of his armorie. 1611Bible Song Sol. iv. 4 The tower of Dauid builded for an armorie. 1671Milton Samson 1281 Their armories and magazines contemns. 1711Vind. Sacheverell 8 Like one of the Figures in the Queens-Armory in the Tower. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 678 The public buildings are, an exchange..armoury, poor house. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 171 The armoury..a gothic hall furnished with weapons of various kinds and ages.
4. fig. (Cf. also armory2.)
1615Hieron Wks. I. 618 The diuels storehouse and his armory of tentations. 1689Selden Table T. 9 A Book of Apothegms is an armoury of thought. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. II. 31 Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 1877L. Morris Epic Hades i. 31 The subtle wiles a woman draws From the armoury of hate.
5. The workshop of an armourer; a place where arms are manufactured (U.S.).
1841in Webster. 1859in Worcester. 1860Bartlett s.v., The Springfield Armory.
6. The craft of the armourer.
1718Pope Iliad vii. 270 The work of Tychius, who..in all arts of armoury excell'd. |