Hypertext Webster Gateway: "row"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Rowing}.] [AS. r?wan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. r["u]ejen,
Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. r?a, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See {Rough}.]
Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] ``Lock he never so row.''
--Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
--Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. r[=a]w, r?w; probably
akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?kh[=a] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, v. i.
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Row \Row\, n.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
row
n 1: an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line:
"a row of chairs"
2: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
[syn: {quarrel}, {wrangle}, {words}, {run-in}, {dustup}]
3: a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a
mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed
wire protected the trenches"
4: a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: {course}]
5: a linear array of numbers side by side
6: a continuous chronological succession without an
interruption; "they won the championship three years in a
row"
7: the act of rowing as a sport [syn: {rowing}]
v : propel with oars; "row the boat"; down the lake"
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