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Arrows See also weaponry. a crossbowman. Also arcubalist. A form of divination in which marks or words are placed on arrows which are then drawn from a quiver at random. 1. pertaining to archery. 2. resembling an arrow; sagittate. shaped like an arrowhead, especially plant leaves shaped like elongated triangles. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If you get well enough to make me one, Tal, and some arrows to go with it, I'd like it for a curiosity to hang in my room at home. Past the veranda they raced, pouring a deadly fire into the kneeling Waziri who discharged their volley of arrows from behind their long, oval shields--shields well adapted, perhaps, to stop a hostile arrow, or deflect a spear; but futile, quite, before the leaden missiles of the riflemen. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. |
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