Definition of "armill"

The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.

2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots‎, page 102

Then the King ariſing, the Dean of Weſtminſter takes the Armill from the Maſter of the great Wardrobe , and putteth it about His Majeſty's Neck […]

1727, The Form and Order of Their Majeſties Coronation‎, John Baskett, page 43

Enough cloth of gold had therefore to be prepared for these purposes, and the Armill is of especial interest, as it introduced all the emblems of the daughter nations for the first time into ceremonial use on such an occasion.

1921, Frank Warner, The Silk Industry of the United Kingdom: Its Origin and Development‎, Drane's, page 549

In 1911 and 1937, the equivalent division was entitled The Investing with the Armill and Royal Robe, and the Delivery of the Orb.

1953, The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II‎, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 21

The Armill, Astrolabe, Dioptra, and Parallactic Instrument of the ancients were some of the instruments thus constructed.

1840, William Whewell, “Introduction”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, part II (Of Knowledge), book XIII (Of Methods Employed in the Formation of Science), paragraph 5, page 489

This instrument was called an equinoctial armil. Observations taken in this manner must necessarily be very inaccurate, owing to the refraction.

1856, Hannah M. Bouvier, Familiar Astronomy, or an Introduction to the Study of the Heavens‎, page 328

The instruments at this observatory were much admired and included an armillary sphere, a mural quadrant and a solstitial armil.

1970, Philip Khuri Hitti, History of the Arabs‎, 10th edition, page 378