[f. ARM sb.1]
† 1. To take in one’s arms. Obs. rare.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., IV. ii. 400. Come, Arme him.
2. To give one’s arm to, conduct by walking arm-in-arm with. See ARM sb.1 2.
c. 1612. Two Noble Kinsm., V. iii. 135. Arm your prize: I know you will not lose her.
1675. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, II. (1735), 51. To arm her to her lawyer’s Chambers.
1871. Daily News, 11 Feb., 5/5. Assiduously arming along the crowded street this shambling half-blind old woman.
3. To put one’s arm round.
1863. W. Lancaster, Præterita, 59. The princess arm’d his neck.
† 4. intr. To project like an arm. Obs.
1538. Leland, Itin., VII. 143. The Marsch Land beginneth to nesse and arme yn to the Se.
