Bou'stro-phē'don, n.

n. [Gr. βουστροφηδόν, turning like oxen in plowing, βούστροφος, plowed by oxen, from βοῦς, ox, and στρέφειν, to turn.] An ancient Greek mode of writing, in alternate lines, one from right to left, and the next from left to right, as fields are plowed.