armor

armor
    n 1: protective covering made of metal and used in combat [syn:
         {armor}, {armour}]
    2: a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles [syn:
       {armor}, {armour}]
    3: tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or
       plant [syn: {armor}, {armour}]
    v 1: equip with armor [syn: {armor}, {armour}]
    

Armor \Ar"mor\, n. [OE. armure, fr. F. armure, OF. armeure, fr.
   L. armatura. See {Armature}.] [Spelt also {armour}.]
   1. Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn
      to protect one's person in battle.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole
         apparatus of war, including offensive as well as
         defensive arms. The statues of armor directed what arms
         every man should provide.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts,
      protecting them from the fire of artillery.
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   {Coat armor}, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its
      several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest,
      supporters, motto, etc.

   {Submarine}, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See
      under {Submarine}.
      [1913 Webster]
    

ARMOR, n.  The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a
blacksmith.
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "armor":
      Philistinism, aegis, armament, armature, armor plate, bard, beaver,
      body armor, brassard, breastplate, buckler, bulletproof vest,
      callosity, callousness, callus, chain armor, chain mail, chitin,
      cloak, coat of mail, coif, corselet, cortex, cover, cuirass,
      elytron, episperm, flintiness, formidable defenses, gas mask,
      gauntlet, guard, habergeon, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness,
      hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, harness, hauberk,
      headpiece, heart of stone, helm, helmet, imperviousness,
      induration, insensitiveness, insensitivity, inuredness, jamb,
      lorica, lorication, mail, mantle, nasal, needles, obduracy,
      obdurateness, panoply, pericarp, plate, plate armor, protection,
      protective covering, rhinoceros hide, rondel, safeguard, screen,
      scute, scutum, security, shell, shelter, shield, shroud, spines,
      stoniness, suit of armor, test, testa, thick skin, veil, visor,
      ward