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Webster 1913 Edition
Arrowy
Ar′row-y
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of arrows.
How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of
Sharp sleet of
arrowy
showers. Milton.
2.
Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.
“His arrowy tongue.” Cowper.
By the blue rushing of the
arrowy
Rhone. Byron.
With
arrowy
vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Arrowy
AR'ROWY
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of arrows.2.
Formed like an arrow.Definition 2024
arrowy
arrowy
English
Adjective
arrowy (comparative more arrowy, superlative most arrowy)
- Consisting of arrows.
- Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
- I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
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