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Row
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 6
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 6
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 6
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 6
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 6
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 6 of 6
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.