Equipped with or carrying a weapon or weapons (now typically firearms); involving the use of weaponry. Formerly also: †wearing or fitted with armour…

Accoutred; equipped.

Instrumental and parasynthetic, as steel-born, steel-bound, steel-clad, steel-girt, steel-graven, steel-lined, steel-shod; steel-barred, steel-bosomed…

An item of armour; a part of a suit of armour. Now chiefly in compounds, with prefixed word indicating the part of the body protected, as headpiece…

Armed, in armour. Obsolete.

furnished with armour, equipped for battle.

Clad in, protected by, or covered with armour (armour, n. 2a).

Of a man, army, etc.: Armed or protected with steel.

Of a person or group of people: wearing armour made of iron; armour-clad. historical. Now rare.

Clad in, protected by, or covered with armour (armour, n. 2a); spec. (of a warship) covered wholly or partly with thick defensive metal plates (now…

fighting in heavy armour (in quot. figurative).

Well protected with armour.

Completely covered or protected, as with a coat of mail; inviolable.