Toxophilite became established in the language as the name for a late
18th-century English archery society. The word derives from Greek
"toxon," which referred to both a bow and arrow, and "philos," meaning
"loving." Today, "toxophilite" is a rarely used word but often occurs in
vocabulary games and puzzles and in spelling bees. A more ubiquitous
descendant of "toxon" is "toxic." "Toxic" is an anglicization of Latin's
word for "poison," "toxicum," which originally meant "poison for
arrows" and is a borrowing from Greek "toxikon," meaning "arrow."
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