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arrowheaded |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Arrowheaded \Ar"row*head`ed\, a. Shaped like the head of an arrow; 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 Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See {Cuneiform}.
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