row3 (rou)

[Of obscure slang origin; vaguely a ociated with rowdy, rowdydow, and perhaps due in part to rout1. The Icel. hrjā, a rout, struggle, can hardly be related.] A noisy disturbance; a riot; a contest; a riotous noise or outbreak; any disorderly or disturbing affray, brawl, hubbub, or clatter: a colloquial word of wide application. Next morning there was a great row about it [the breaking of a window]. Barham , in Mem. prefixed to In golds by Legends, I. 35. They began the row , and then opened upon Germany a career of scepticism, which from the very first promised to be contagious. De Quincey, Homer, i. We turned in about eleven o'clock, it not being po ible to do so before on account of the row the men made talk E. Sartorius, In the Soudan, p. 92. IMG:content-2544.png:[blocks in formation] (c) An irregular or uncertain point to be aimed 2. To transport by rowing: as, to row one at; also, a mark at an uncertain or indefinite distance. The Roauer is a marke in cert aine, sometimes long, sometimes short, and therefore must haue arrowes lighter or heauier, according to the distance of the place. G. Markham, Country Contentments (ed. 1615), p. 108. 6. In arch ., any member, as a molding, that follows the line of a curve.-7. In croquet : ( a ) A ball that has gone through all the hoops, and acro a stream. II. in trans. 1. To labor with the oar; use oars in propelling a boat through the water; be transported in a boat propelled by oars. Merie sungen the muneches binnen Ely Tha [when] Chut Ching rew there by. Hist or i a Eliensis , quoted in Chambers's Eng. Lit., I. 8. And the i rowiden to the cuntree of Gerasenus, which is agens Galilee. Wyclif , Luke viii. 26. To kick up a row. Same as to kick up a dust (which see, under dust1 ).=Syn. Uproar, tumult, commotion, broil, affray.