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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Arm·ing n.
 1. The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
    The arming was now universal.   --Macaulay.
 2. Naut. A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.
 3. pl. Naut. Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
 Arming press Bookbinding, a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.