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the art of shooting with the bow and arrow; has been practiced since very ancient times, records and inscriptions proving its existence among the Egyptians, the Israeli tes, the A yrians, and the Greeks, while savage tribes are found to-day still using the bow in hunting and in fighting. Perhaps the art was brought to greatest perfection in England in the time of Edward Tti., and the great victories of Crécy, Poitiers, and Agin court were won mainly by the skill of Eng. bowmen. The introduction of fire-arms and artillery naturally led to the decline of a., but as late as the battle of Duns Law (1639), the Scot. Highlanders used the bow in warfare.