Row \Row\, a. & adv. [See Rough.]
   Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row."
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	Row \Row\, n. [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
   A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
   --Byron.
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	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.
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         And there were windows in three rows.    --1 Kings vii.
                                                  4.
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         The bright seraphim in burning row.      --Milton.
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   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.
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	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.
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   2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the
      captain ashore in his barge.
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	Row \Row\, v. i.
   1. To use the oar; as, to row well.
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   2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
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	Row \Row\, n.
   The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
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	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: (construction) 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 across the lake"

	

	377 Moby Thesaurus words for "row":
   Autobahn, Bedlam let loose, Indian file, US highway, ado, advance,
   affray, agitation, align, alley, alleyway, altercation, array,
   arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, articulation,
   autoroute, autostrada, avenue, bank, barney, bawl out, be noisy,
   bedlam, beef, belt highway, berate, bicker, bickering, blast,
   blind alley, bluster, boat, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother,
   boulevard, bowl, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bump heads, bunt, bustle,
   butt, buzz, bypass, byway, cacophony, camino real, canoe, carpet,
   carriageway, carry sail, catch a crab, catena, catenation,
   caterwaul, causeway, causey, chain, chain reaction, chaining,
   chaos, charivari, chaussee, chew out, chirm, churn,
   circumferential, circumnavigate, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter,
   close, coast, commotion, concatenation, connection, consecution,
   continuum, conturbation, corduroy road, county road, course, court,
   crescent, cross, cruise, cul-de-sac, cut a crab, cycle,
   dead-end street, descent, dike, din, dirt road, discomposure,
   discord, disorder, dispute, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance,
   donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, driveway, drone, drunken brawl,
   dustup, ebullition, echelon, embroilment, endless belt,
   endless round, excitement, expressway, fall out, falling-out,
   fanaticism, feather, feather an oar, ferment, fermentation, fever,
   feverishness, fidgets, fight, file, filiation, flap, flurry,
   fluster, flutteration, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, forward,
   fracas, fray, free-for-all, freeway, frenzy, fume, furor, furore,
   fury, fuss, gamut, give way, go by ship, go on shipboard,
   go to sea, gob, gradation, gravel road, hassle, hell broke loose,
   helter-skelter, highroad, highway, highways and byways, howl,
   hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hum, hurly-burly, impel,
   inquietude, interstate highway, jangle, jaw, jitters, jumpiness,
   knock-down-and-drag-out, lane, line, line up, lineage, local road,
   lock horns, loud noise, maelstrom, maffick, main drag, main road,
   make a noise, make a passage, make a racket, make a row,
   make an uproar, malaise, melee, mews, moil, monotone, motorboat,
   motorway, move, mush, navigate, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness,
   nexus, noise, noise and shouting, oar, order, outcry, pace, paddle,
   pandemonium, parkway, passion, pave, paved road, pedal, pell-mell,
   pendulum, periodicity, perturbation, pike, place, plank road,
   plenum, ply, ply the oar, pole, pother, powder train,
   primary highway, private road, progression, propel, pull, punt,
   push, queue, racket, rage, raise Cain, raise a clamor, raise hell,
   raise the devil, raise the roof, rampage, range, rank, rattle,
   ream out, recurrence, restlessness, reticulation, rhubarb,
   right-of-way, ring road, riot, road, roadbed, roadway, roar, roil,
   roll, rotation, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, round, rout,
   route nationale, routine, row away, row dry, royal road, ruckus,
   ruction, rumble, rumpus, run, run-in, sail, sail round,
   sail the sea, scale, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, scud, scull,
   seafare, secondary road, seethe, seething, sequel, sequence,
   series, set-to, shindy, ship oars, shivaree, shoot, shove, shunt,
   single file, sky an oar, spat, spectrum, speedway, squabble,
   state highway, steam, steamboat, stir, storminess, street, string,
   string out, succession, superhighway, swath, sweep, sweep along,
   swirl, take a voyage, tempestuousness, terrace, thoroughfare,
   thread, through street, thrust, thruway, thunder, thunderclap,
   tier, tiff, tintamarre, to-do, toll road, tongue-lash,
   township road, train, trap, traverse, treadle, trepidation,
   trepidity, troll, trouble, trundle, tumult, tumultuation,
   tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turnpike, twitter,
   unease, unrest, uproar, upset, voyage, whoop it up, wildness,
   windrow, wrangle, wynd, yacht, yap, zeal, zealousness

	

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