Weap·on n.
 1. An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
    The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.   --2 Cor. x. 4.
 They, astonished, all resistance lost,
 All courage; down their idle weapons dropped.   --Milton.
 2. Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.  “Woman's weapons, water drops.”
 3. Bot. A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.
 Concealed weapons. See under Concealed.
 Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it.  [Obs.] --Boyle.
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 Con·cealed a. Hidden; kept from sight; secreted.
 -- Con*ceal*ed*ly adv. -- Con*ceal*ed*ness, n.
 Concealed weapons Law, dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
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