unarmed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms

   Went alone and unarmed.

2. 2
   adj

   used of plants or animals, lacking barbs, stings, or thorns

   This species of cactus is unarmed until it is about two years old.

3. 3
   adj

   Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.

   An unarmed jellyfish would never capture prey.

4. 4
   adj

   Unaided, as of the vision without a glass.

   […] in order to see such Objects as are very remote, purblind Persons must make Use of concave Glasses, whose Radii are equal to the Distances at which they see distinctly with their unarmed Eyes.

From un- + armed.

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