n. [ OE. arewe, AS. arewe, earh; akin to Icel. ör, örvar, Goth. arhwazna, and perh. L. arcus bow. Cf. Arc. ] A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Broad arrow. (a) An arrow with a broad head. (b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad arrowhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. Sagittaria sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arrowheaded characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrowheads, nailheads, or wedges; -- hence called also nail-headed, wedge-formed, cuneiform, or cuneatic characters; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) A white-flowered west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. Maranta arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. Its root yields arrowroot starch. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.
Syn. -- arrowroot, American arrowroot, obedience plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A nutritive starch obtained from the rootstocks of Maranta arundinacea, and used as food, esp. for children an invalids; also, a similar starch obtained from other plants, as various species of Maranta and Curcuma. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (Botany) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes; -- of a leaf shape.
Syn. -- sagittate, sagittiform. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots. Also, any of several other similar small trees whose straight shoots were used for making arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any plant (Viburnum recognitum) closely related to southern arrow wood; eastern U.S. Maine to Ohio and Georgia.
Syn. -- arrow wood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. “His arrowy tongue.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]