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Arrow vs Belomancy - What's the difference?

arrow | belomancy |

As nouns the difference between arrow and belomancy

is that arrow is a projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow while belomancy is studying the flight of arrows, an act of divination used by the greeks and arabs it is strongly forbidden in the koran.

As a verb arrow

is to move swiftly and directly (like an arrow).

As a contraction arrow

is (obsolete).

arrow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) earh, (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
  • *
  • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. \to).
  • (lb) A directed edge.
  • A dart.
  • Synonyms
    * (projectile) streal * (in graph theory) arc, directed edge
    Derived terms
    * arrowsmith * arrow-finger * arrowhead * arrow of time / time's arrow * arrowroot * arrowy * straight as an arrow
    See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
  • To let fly swiftly and directly
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
  • , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner. }}

    Etymology 2

    Representing pronunciation.

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
  • (obsolete)
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 153:
  • though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.

    belomancy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bellomancy * bolomancy

    Noun

    (-)
  • studying the flight of arrows, an act of divination used by the Greeks and Arabs. It is strongly forbidden in the Koran.
  • See also

    * rhabdomancy

    References

    :: "For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with his arrows..." -- Ezekiel 21:21, Bible :: "Of this kinde of Rhabdomancy was that practised by Nabuchadonosor in the Chaldean miscellany, delivered by Ezekiel. A like way of Belomancy or Divination by Arrowes hath been in request with Scythians, Alanes, Germans, with the Africans and Turks of Algiers." -- Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne 1646