Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} turning like oxen in plowing; {not transcribed} to turn.]

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