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
(Row) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rowing.] [AS. rwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rüejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. ra, L. remus oar, Gr. Skr. aritra. &radic8. 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
(Row), v. i.

1. To use the oar; as, to row well.

2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

Row
(Row), n. The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

Row
(Row) n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. raw, rw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rkha 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.


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