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ˈarrow-ˌheaded, a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. gen. Having the shape of an arrow-head.
1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xiv. 490 At Princeton, where Donop had thrown up arrow-headed earthworks.
2. spec. = Cuneiform; applied to the characters of the ancient inscriptions of Nineveh, Babylon, Persepolis, etc.
1816T. Maurice Ruins Bab. 158 The name of arrow-headed, bestowed upon these characters by himself [Dr. Hager]. 1829J. Kenrick in Philos. Mag. May 321 A stroke which, when elaborately made, resembles the head of an arrow; when less carefully cut or impressed, a wedge or a nail; and hence the inscriptions have been called arrow-headed, nailheaded, or cuneiform. 1847Q. Rev. No. 158. 416 These cuneiform or arrow-headed characters are so called from one of the elements of which they consist, a straight line, slightly divided at the top like the notch of an arrow, and ending in a point, so as to represent a kind of wedge; the other element is an angle. |