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    An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one linefrom left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields areplowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

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      Boustrophedon is to write from left to right in one line and right to left in the next one, or vice-versa. The term derives from Greek, from the way land is plowed with an ox. One form of ancient Greek was written like this. Some printing computer-related devices use this technique.

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        someone [or something] with a high amount of [awesomeness], [amazingness], or edginess.

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          Written from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines.

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