Ar'rōw-hĕad'ed, a.

a. Shaped like the head of an arrow.

Arrow-headed characters, characters the elements of which consist of strokes resembling arrow-heads, nail-heads, 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.