Row (?), a. & adv. [See Rough.]
Rough; stern; angry.
[Obs.] "Lock he never so
row."
Chaucer.
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Row, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
[Colloq.]
Byron.
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Row (?), n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. raw, rw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rkha a line, stroke.]
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
And there were windows in three rows.
1 Kings vii. 4.
The bright seraphim in burning row.
Milton.
Row culture Agric., the practice of cultivating crops in drills. -- Row of points Geom., the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line.
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Row (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. rwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. ruejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. ra, L. remus oar, Gr. , Skr. aritra. &root;8. Cf. Rudder.]
1.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
2.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
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Row, v. i.
1.
To use the oar; as, to row well.
2.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
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Row, n.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
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