_Armida's Girdle_. Armida had an enchanted girdle, which, "in price and beauty," surpassed all her other ornaments; even the cestus of Venus was less costly. It told her everything; "and when she would be loved, she wore the same."--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). ARM'STRONG (_John_), called "The Laird's Jock." He is the laird of Mangerton. This old warrior witnesses a national combat in the valley of Liddesdale, between his son (the Scotch chieftain) and Foster (the English champion), in which young Armstrong is overthrown.--Sir W. Scott, _The Laird's Jock_ (time, Elizabeth). _Armstrong (Grace)_, the bride-elect of Hobbie Elliot of the heugh-foot, a young farmer.--Sir W. Scott, _The Black Dwarf_ (time, Anne). _Armstrong (Archie)_, court jester to James I., introduced in _The Fortunes of Nigel_, by Sir Walter Scott (1822). AR'NAUT, an Albanian mountaineer. The word means "a brave man." Stained with the best of Arnaut blood. Byron, _The Giaour_, 526. ARNHEIM (2 _syl.). The baron Herman von Arnheim_, Anne of Geierstein's grandfather. _Sibilla of Arnheim_, Anne's mother. _The baroness of Arnheim_, Anne of Geierstein.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). ARNOLD, the deformed son of Bertha, who hates him for his ugliness. Weary of life, he is about to make away with himself, when a stranger accosts him, and promises to transform him into any shape he likes best. He chooses that of Achilles, and then goes to Rome, where he joins the besieging army of Bourbon. During the siege, Arnold enters St. Peter's of Rome just in time to rescue Olimpia, but the proud beauty, to prevent being taken captive by him, flings herself from the high altar on the pavement, and is taken up apparently lifeless. As the drama was never completed, the sequel is not known.--Byron, _The Deformed Transformed_. _Ar'nold_, the torch-bearer at Rotherwood.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). _Ar'nold_ of Benthuysen, disguised as a beggar, and called "Ginks."--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Beggar's Bush_ (1622). ARNOLD BRINKWORTH, frank, whole-souled sailor, in love with and betrothed to Blanche Lundie. Through his friendship for the man who has betrayed Anne Silvestre, and desire to serve the hapless woman, he is the bearer of a message to her from _Geoffrey Delamayne_, and is mistaken for her husband. Through this blunder he finds himself married by Scotch law to Anne, while he is engaged to Blanche.--Wilkie Collins, _Man and Wife_. ARNOL'DO, son of Melchtal, patriot of the forest cantons of Switzerland. He was in love with Mathilde (3 _syl._), sister of Gessler, the Austrian governor of the district. When the tyranny of Gessler drove the Swiss into rebellion, Arnoldo joined the insurgents, but after the death of Gessler he married Mathilde, whose life he had saved when it was imperilled by an avalanche.--Rossini, _Guglielmo Tell_ (1829).