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Webster 1913 Edition


Boustrophedon

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Bouˊstro-phe′don

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] turning like oxen in plowing; [GREEK] to turn.]
An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.