Dictionary entry

Row (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Row (?), n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. rāw, r�w; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r�khā 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.

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.