Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Arming \Arm"ing\, n.
   1. The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.

            The arming was now universal.         --Macaulay.

   2. (Naut.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower
      end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells,
      etc., of the sea bottom. --Totten.

   3. pl. (Naut.) Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft
      outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

   {Arming press} (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and
      designs on the covers of books.