Definition of "armed"

armed¹

/ɑɹmd/

adjective
comparative more armed, superlative most armed
1. (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
2. (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
3. (obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
  Quotations
  a distemper eminently armed from heaven
  1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
  The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis.
  1821, Sir William Herschel, Catalogue of Double Stars
4. (botany) Having prickles or thorns.
verb
1. simple past and past participle of arm

armed²

/ɑɹmd/

adjective
not comparable
1. (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
2. (of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
  Quotations
  His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.
  1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
3. (heraldry, of animals) Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.