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ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join) , the human upper limb from the shoulder to the wrist, and the fore limb of an animal. (See ANATOMY: Superficial and Artistic, and SKELETON: Appendicular.) The word is also used of any projecting limb, as of a crane
balance , of a branch of a tree, and so, in a transferred sense, of the branch of a river or a nerve . Through the Fr. armes, from the Lat. arma, and so in English
defence , and in many expressions such as " men-at-arms," " assault-at-arms," and the like, and for the various branches, artillery, cavalry, infantry
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