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ARMET (diminutive of Fr. arme), a form of helmet, which was developed out of existing forms in the latter part of the i5th century. It was round in shape, and often had a narrow ridge or comb along the top. It had a pivoted or hinged vizor and nosepiece, and c ...

ARGUMENT, a word meaning " proof," " evidence," corresponding in English to the Latin word argumentum, from which it is derived; the originating Latin verb arguere, to make clear, from which comes the English " argue," is from a root meaning bright, appearing

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit ; cf . the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word tirma, weapons, Gr. Appfo, joint, and the reduplicated apapioiuir. to join), the human upper limb from the shoulder to the wrist, and

ART, a word in its most extended and most popular sense meaning everything which we distinguish from Nature. Art and Nature are the two most comprehensive genera of which the human mind has formed the conception. Under the genus Nature, or the genus Art, we in