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arme 22 arret
armee metropolitaine, "home" army, as opposed
to colonial troops;
de mer, sea forces, i. e., the navy proper,
and the various marine troops, as infantry,
artillery, etc.; (sometimes) fleet, navy;
d' 'observation, army of observation, to watch
a point from which danger is threatened (e. g.,
to watch a relieving army in a siege, a frontier
in case of probable intervention of a third
party, etc.);
d' occupation, army of occupation;
d- 'operations, army of operations, i. e., whose
first business is to fight;
permanente, standing army;
armer en course, (nav.) to equip, fit out, for privateering;
une dynamo, (elec.) to wind a dynamo;
unfrein, (art., etc.) to set a brake;
unefusee, (art.) to arm a fuse;
sur la gdchette, (sm. a.) to move the bolt,
etc., violently forward, so as to cause the head
of the sear to be struck;
en guerre, (nav.) to commission (a ship)
for war;
un obus, (art.) to fit or insert a fuse in a
shell;
une prise, (nav.) to man a prize.
armistice, m., armistice, truce;
denoncer un , to close an armistice, to
de secours, relieving army (to raise a siege,
relieve a besieged fortress, or succor another
army);
de siege, besieging army; besieging forces
proper, siege corps;
de terre, land forces (as distinguished from
naval);
territoriale, (France) territorial army, consisting
of men that have served ten years in
the active army and its reserve.
annemcnt, m., armament, arming (fort, ship,
army, etc.); equipping, equipment; fitting
out (commercial as well as military); arms;
warlike preparations; (in pi., art.) equipments;
(art.) arming (of a fuse);
d'une batterie, arming, supplying a battery
with guns;
de combat, (art. , fort.) guns of an intrenched
camp (Brialmont);
complementaire, (art., fort.) in a permanent
work, guns added to, complementary of,
de -
surete, q. v.;
des corps de troupe, (Fr. a.) the supplying
of arms, etc., to troops (done by the artillery);
cuirasse, (art.) a generic term for guns in
armored emplacements;
de defense, (art., fort.) the armament of
a permanent work, comprising de surete,
complementaire, qq. v., and the general
reserve of guns; the (increased) armament
of an attacked sector of defense (Brialmont);
d' interdiction, (art., fort.) in a fort d'arret, q. v., the guns covering the roads closed or
commanded by the fort;
de mobilisation, (art., fort.) the armament
of permanent works of the first order, installed
in place, and intended to offset open assault
and to assure the defense until the zone of
attack is known;
normal (art. , fort.) the armament necessary
to repel an open assault (Brialmont);
officier d' end it;
general, general armistice, affecting all the
armies engaged;
particulier, truce affecting only a part
, (mil.) v. officier;
d'une place de guerre, (art., fort.) the armament
of a fortified position, consisting of
de defense, batteries mobiks, q. v., and spare
guns;
de reserve, (Fr. a.) arms, etc., for men
who are to join on mobilization, for the
reserve;
du service courant, (Fr. a.) arms, etc., for
the active army ;
en service, arms, etc., in the hands of
troops;
de surete, (art., fort.) the armament of a
permanent work, destined to prevent a surprise
or an open assault.
anner, v. a. r., to arm; to furnish with arms;
to make preparations for war; to take up arms;
to fit with, to equip with; to build up; to fit
out (commercial as well as military); to fit
out a vessel (trade or war); to steel (a tool);
(art.) to mount guns in a battery, in a fort;
to arm (a fuse); (nav.) to put a ship in commission;
to man (a boat); (sm. a.) to cock
a piece: (hipp.) to take the bit in the teeth,
to bend down the head until cheeks of bridle
rest on chest;
les avirons, (boats) to ship the oars;
un bdtiment, (nav.) to put a ship in commission;
une batterie, (art.) to mount guns in a battery,
to furnish a battery with guns;
un cabestan, to man a capstan;
un c&ble, to sheathe, armor, a cable; to
wind a cable with wire;
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the field of operations.
armoire, f., cupboard, press;
h glace, & poils, (mil. slang) soldier's
knapsack.
armoire-etagfere, f., clothes-press.
armoiries, f. pi., coat-of-arms.
armon, m., (art.) hound (or side-rail); futchel
(limber); side-rail (caisson);
queue d' s, fork.
armure, f., armor; (elec.) pole piece (of a dynamo),
armature of a magnet; (nav.) armor
(of a vessel);
du genie, (mil.) armor worn by two leading
sappers in the full sap (abandoned in
1878).
armurier, m., armorer; (Fr. a.) employ^ of the
artillery who repairs, etc., arms in the regiment
(called chef ; there are two classes,
ranking next after adjudant).
aronde, f., (old name for hirondelle, swallow);
reue d' , (carp.) dovetail;
en, queue d' , dovetailed.
arpent, m., old (and varying) unit of area.
arpentage, m., (surv.) land-surveying (to determine
areas).
arpenter, v. a., (surv.) to survey (land, for area).
arpenteur, m., land surveyor;
chaine d' , (inst.) surveyor's chain;
iquerre d' , (inst.) surveyor's square (for
angles of 45, 90).
arque, p. p., bent. (esp. hipp.) bent or curved
(of a horse's legs).
arquebusier, m., (sm. a.) gunsmith, gunmaker.
arquer, v. a. and n., to arch, curve, camber; to
be or become bent, curved, crooked, etc.
arrache-cartouclie, m., (sm. a.) extractor.
arrache-clou, m., nail-drawer.
arrache-culot, m., (art.) cartridge-head extractor,
used in canon ti balles.
arrachement, m., polling, wrenching; (art.)
stripping (of a rifling-band); (met.) break,
tearing, or rupture (in a fracture, especially
of fibrous metal); metallic threads noticeable
in metal that has been broken with considerable
violence.
arrache-pieux, m., pile-drawing engine;
verin , withdrawing-screw;
levier , withdrawing-lever.
arracher, v. a., to tear off, out, apart; to rend,
wrench; (art., sm. a.) to strip (of jacket on
bullet, on lead-covered shells, of rifling-band,
etc.).
arraisonner, v. a., (nav.) to force a (commercial)
vessel to answer questions, to question a
vessel.
arraser, v. a., v. araser.
arrtrages, m. pi., arrearage.
arrestation, f., arrest, confinement; custody.
arret, m., stop; (mil.) check, in a column on the
march, of a wagon in a train; (mach., tech.)
part of a machine or mechanism intended to
stop or limit the action or play of some other
parts; (hence) stop, catch, lug, rib, etc.; (mil.,
etc.) judgment, decision; (man.) stopping or
halting (of a horse in motion, by its rider);
(in pi., mil), arrest (of officers, disciplinary
punishment);
d' , (mach., art., etc.) stop, keep (in many
relations;