Row
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
(2): ( v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.
(3): ( v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; - said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
(4): ( v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
(5): ( v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.
(6): ( v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to drive," is used of "rowing" or sailing a boat, Mark 6:48; John 6:19 . See Drive.
King James Dictionary [3]
ROW, 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 gems or pearls a row of houses or columns.
Where the bright Seraphim in burning row.
ROW, Gr. to row, an oar. If the noun is the primary word, ruder and rother, an oar, may be from the root of rod, L. radius, or from the root of rado, to rub, grate, sweep. If the verb is the primary word, the sense is to sweep, to urge, drive, impel. See Rudder.
1. To impel, as a boat or vessel along the surface of water by oars as, to row a boat. 2. To transport by rowing as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
ROW, To labor with the oar as, to row well to row with oars muffled.
