boustrophedon

n. ancient method of writing, found in some old manuscripts, running alternatively from right to left and then back from left to right (as in plowing)

adj. written alternatively from right to left and then back from left to right (as in plowing)

Boustrophedon or boustrephedon (Greek: βουστροφηδόν: "turning like oxen in ploughing"), is an ancient way of writing manuscripts and other inscriptions in which, rather than going from left to right as in modern English, or right to left as in Hebrew and Arabic, alternate lines must be read in opposite directions. The name is borrowed from the Greek language. Its etymology is from , "ox" + , "to turn" (cf. strophe), because the hand of the writer goes back and forth like an ox drawing a plow across a field and turning at the end of each row to return in the opposite direction.
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Noun
1. an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs'
(hypernym) orthography, writing system

(n.)
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.
  

Boustrophedon (Greek) Ox-turning; a method of writing found in some old inscriptions, such as Solon's Laws, which ran from left to right and then back from right to left, or vice versa, as in plowing.