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Consisting of arrows.
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
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An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
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A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Haemanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.
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A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
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A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
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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.
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Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
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Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
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A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
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A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.
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A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.
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Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
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An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
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A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
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One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.
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The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
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A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
v. t.
Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
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Feathered; -- said of arrows.
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