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armilla

ɑrˈmɪlə
WordNet
  1. (n) armilla
    (archeology) a bracelet worn around the wrist or arm
  2. (n) armilla
    a celestial globe consisting of metal hoops; used by early astronomers to determine the positions of stars
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Armilla
    (Zoöl) A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.
  2. Armilla
    An armil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) armilla
    In archœol., a bracelet or armlet: as, a Roman or Frankish armilla. Also called armil.
  2. (n) armilla
    In machinery, an iron ring, hoop, or brace, in which the gudgeons of a wheel move.
  3. (n) armilla
    In anatomy, the annular ligament of the wrist which binds together the tendons of the hand.
  4. (n) armilla
    Same as armil, 1.
  5. (n) armilla
    In ornithology, a colored ring encircling the tibia of a bird just above the heel-joint.
  6. (n) armilla
    In botany, the frill originally covering the hymenium of agarics and adhering to the stipe after the expansion of the pileus.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Armilla
    in archæology, a bracelet: one of the coronation ornaments: the regalia
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L., a bracelet

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. armilla, an armlet. See Arm (1).

Usage in literature

He then proceeded to the village of Armilla, where the queen Isabella remained with her escort and attendants. "Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" by Washington Irving

Armilla wrings from the unfortunate Millo the purport of Norand's terrible disclosure. "The Serapion Brethren," by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

The first was an equinoctial, the second a solstitial armilla. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5" by Various

Quern uocis iactum Roluo perinde ac inclytum sibi cognomen amplexus, urbanitatem dicti ingentis armillae dono prosequitur. "Beowulf" by R. W. Chambers

The earliest forms were "armillae" and spherical. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7" by Various