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In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order. Shak. And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow. Dryden.

fense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow. 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.

lant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

The head of an arrow.

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; the oldest written characters used in the country about the Tigris and E…

said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

p. p. of Bestrew.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.…

One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

r the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit. And his arched brow, pulled o'er his eyes, With solemn proof proclaims him wise. Churchill.

sertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.