Arrowy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arrowy \Ar"row*y\, a.
     1. Consisting of arrows.
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              How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot
              Sharp sleet of arrowy showers.        --Milton.


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     2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an
        arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue."
        --Cowper.
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              By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. --Byron.
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              With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities.
                                                    --Carlyle.
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