Bow-wise

adv. [f. BOW sb.¹ + -WISE.] In the form or figure of a bow.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xvii. (1495), 320. Now she [the mone] shewyth herself shape a bowe wyse and now as a cercle.

1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 87. The hauen from the eastcoast, in bowewise, crooked apereth.

1842.  Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets (1863), 61. Streaked bow-wise, with a livid white and red.