Ar"row*y (#), a.

1.

Consisting of arrows.

How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot 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 1913.

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