Arms

1. n. The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot.
2. n. Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
3. n. The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.
4. n. Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon.
5. n. The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.