arrow

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A missile having a straight thin shaft with a pointed head at one end and often flight-stabilizing vanes at the other, meant to be shot from a bow.
• noun Something, such as a directional symbol, that is similar to an arrow in form or function.
• intransitive verb To move like an arrow.
• intransitive verb To shoot with an arrow.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To grow up into a long pointed stalk like an arrow.
• To move swiftly, as an arrow.
• To blossom: said particularly of sugar-cane, which throws out an arrowlike flowering; stalk.
• noun A slender, generally pointed, missile weapon made to be shot from a bow.
• noun Anything resembling an arrow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
• noun A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• phrase obsolete Contraction of ever a.
• noun A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
• noun A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (eg. ).
• noun graph theory A directed edge.
• noun colloquial, darts A dart.
• verb To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
• verb To let fly swiftly and directly

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a mark to indicate a direction or relation
• noun a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow