Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling an arrow or arrows, as in shape or in rapidity and directness of motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of arrows.
- adjective Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of
arrows . - adjective Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow;
swift ;darting ;piercing .
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Examples
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I would have seized him; but he eluded me, and quitted the house with precipitation: in a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
Chapter 3 2010
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I would have seized him; but he eluded me, and quitted the house with precipitation: in a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness, and was soon lost amidst the waves.
Chapter 20 2010
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How many an arrowy glance those lids of thine have sped.
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On the loopy side, as opposed to the arrowy side, is each visible loop a row or two rows?
Still, mustn't grumble ailbhe 2005
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The featheriness of the maple, and the arrowy straightness and pyramidal form of the cryptomeria, please me better than all else; but why criticise?
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Its fixed eyes, too, were living gems, and from the point of its dangerous arrowy head the glistening tongue flickered ceaselessly as I stood a few yards away regarding it.
Green Mansions 2004
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When he was gone, she opened it again, listened with a gloomy pleasure to the distant thunder, that began to murmur among the mountains, and watched the arrowy lightnings, which broke over the remoter scene.
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Richmond Park possessed itself, even on that bright day of June, with arrowy cuckoos shifting the tree-points of their calls, and the wood doves announcing high summer.
In Chancery 2004
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Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall, arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber.
Walden 2004
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