Word Meanings - PRICKSHAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An arrow.

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• ARROWY
  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
• ARROWWOOD
  A shrub growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.
• ARROWHEADED
  Shaped like the head of an arow; cuneiform. 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;
• ARROWHEAD
  An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves. (more info) 1. The head of an arrow.
• ARROWROOT
  A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows. 2. A nutritive starch obtained from
• ARROWWORM
  A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.
• ARROW
  A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. Broad arrow. An arrow with a broad head. A mark placed upon British ordnance and government stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad
• ARROW GRASS
  An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
• MARROWFAT
  A rich but late variety of pea.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• HARROWER
  One who harrows.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• HARROW
  An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried. Bush harrow, a kind of light harrow made of bushes, for harrowing grass lands and covering seeds, or to finish the work of a toothed harrow. -- Drill harrow. See
• WATER SPARROW
  The reed warbler. The reed bunting.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• SUWARROW
  The giant cactus ; -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.
• MARROW
  The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color. 2. The essence; the best part. It takes from
• SPARROWGRASS
  Asparagus. See the Note under Asparagus.
• YARROW
  An American and European composite plant with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil,
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• CARROW
  A strolling gamester. Spenser.
• SEA BARROW
  A sea purse.