a missile weapon of offence, slender, pointed, and barbed, to be cast or shot with a bow. See ARCHERY.

Arrow-Makers, are called fletchers; and were formerly, as well as bowyers, persons of great consequence in the commonwealth.

Arrow-heads and quarrels were to be well boched or braded, and hardened at the points with steel; the doing of which seems to have been the business of the arrow-smith. ARROW-Head. See Sagittaria, Botany Index.

ARROW-Root. See Maranta, Botany Index.