a. [LIGHT adv.1] Bearing light armor or arms.
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. x. (1636), 205. Hee with light armed bands of Souldiers got into Gall.
1772. Ann. Reg., 234. We … Are but the light-arm’d rangers on the scout.
1814. Scott, Ld. of Isles, III. x. England’s light-arm’d vessels ride, Not distant far, the waves of Clyde.
fig. 1645. Milton, Colast., 2. I still was waiting, when these light-arm’d refuters would have don pelting.
1728. Pope, Dunc., I. 306. Lead on my sons, Light-arm’d with Points, Antitheses, and Puns.
