1. (a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.

2. (n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.

3. (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.

4. (v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.

5. (v. t.) To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.

6. (v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.

7. (v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.

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