Armed
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A vessel is “armed” when she is fitted with a full armament for fighting purposes. She may be equipped for warlike purposes, without being “armed.” By “armed” it is ordinarily meant that she has eannen, but if she had a fighting crew, muskets, pistols, powder, shot, cutlasses, and boarding appliances, she might well be said to be equipped for warlike purposes, though notarmed.
2 Hurl. & C.537; 2 Cranch, 121,