Lexic.us

Definition of Armoury

1. Noun. A collection of resources. "He dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"

2. Noun. All the weapons and equipment that a country has.

3. Noun. A military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms.

4. Noun. A place where arms are manufactured.

Definition of Armoury

1. Noun. (British spelling) A place where arms are kept, an arsenal. ¹

2. Noun. (British spelling) A collection of weapons and materiel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Armoury

1. armory [n -MOURIES] - See also: armory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Armoury

armoured truck armoured vehicle armourer armourers armourial armouries armouring armourings armourist armourists

armourlike armours armoursmith armoursmithing armoursmiths armoury (current term) armozeen armozeens armozine armozines

armpiece armpieces armpit armpit hair armpit hairs armpithair armpithairs armpits

Literary usage of Armoury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The armoury in their absence would certainly want one of its most picturesque features. But let them cease to be guides, just when they would be needed in ..."

2. A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages by Benjamin Silliman (1820)
"An ancient axe used at executions—Small armoury—Ancient cannon—Beautiful arrangement of small arms —Horse armoury—Kings on ..."

3. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books by William Beloe (1812)
"THE following address to his subscribers i» prefixed by Handle Holmes to his ACADEMY OF armoury. I am induced to insert tt from the knowledge that Dr. ..."

4. A Voyage in the "Sunbeam": Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Allnutt Brassey (1884)
"After the Duke's departure we went ashore again, called on various friends before luncheon, and went over the palace and through the armoury. ..."

5. The Archaeological Journal by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Central Committee, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1871)
"NOTICES OF EARLY HELMETS PRESERVED IN THE armoury AT PARHAM PARK, SUSSEX. By the LORD ZOUCHE. IN a former volume of this journal, in 1865,1 a notice was ..."

6. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1893)
"204 fire locks, viz., above ye souldiers room, 13 in ye passage of ye Great House, 8 in the armourers Shop, 188 in the armoury, 22 Broken ..."

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