||Bou`stro*phe"don (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; turning like oxen in plowing; &?; 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.

• of writing, in a fashion such that the reading direction changes from right-to-left to left-to-right every line.
  
• written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines
  
• (figurative): changing direction, going back and forth