1. [n]  the act of rowing as a sport
2. [n]  (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
3. [n]  a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"
4. [n]  an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
5. [n]  an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line; "a row of chairs"
6. [n]  a linear array of numbers side by side
7. [n]  a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally); "a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"; "rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
8. [v]  propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"

1. \Row\, a. & adv. [See {Rough}.]
   Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] ``Lock he never so row.''
   --Chaucer.
   

2. \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
   A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
   --Byron.
   

3. \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.
   

4. \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.
   

5. \Row\, v. i.
   1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
   2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
   

6. \Row\, n.
   The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
   

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