The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archwise
Archwise \Arch"wise\, adv. Arch-shaped.
Wiktionary
archwise
a. In the shape of an arch. adv. In the shape of an arch.
Usage examples of "archwise".
It was as sharp, the question, as a knife in his side, but the answer hung fire still and seemed to lose itself in the vague darkness to which the thin admitted dawn, glimmering archwise over the whole outer door, made a semicircular margin, a cold silvery nimbus that seemed to play a little as he looked - to shift and expand and contract.