a. stern; angry. (Obs.) Lock he never so row.
Chaucer.
row , n. (Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.)A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
(Colloq.) Byron.
row (?), n. (OE. rowe,rawe, rewe, AS. raw, r?w; probably
akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?kha
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.
row (?), v. t. (imp. p. pr. akin to D. roeijen, MHG.
ruejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel.
r?a, L. remus oar, Gr. ?, Skr. aritra.
r8. 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.
row , v. i. 1. Touse the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat
rows easily.
row , n. The act of rowing;excursion in a rowboat.
