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  8  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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  (a  boat)  with  oars;  "row  down  the  lake" 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  row 
 
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