Word Meanings - ROWABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be rowed, or rowed upon. "That long barren fen, once rowable." B. Jonson.

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• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• ROWEL
  A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. (more info) rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a 1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• ROWABLE
  That may be rowed, or rowed upon. "That long barren fen, once rowable." B. Jonson.
• ROWBOAT
  A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
• ROWDYDOWDY
  Uproarious.
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• ROWDYISM
  the conduct of a rowdy.
• ROWEN
  1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.
• ROWLOCK
  A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing
• ROWAN TREE
  A european tree related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit
• ROWDYDOW
  Hubbub; uproar.
• ROWPORT
  An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
• ROWEL BONE
  See BONE
• ROWER
  One who rows with an oar.
• ROW
  Rough; stern; angry. "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.
• ROWAN
  Rowan tree. Rowan barry, a barry of the rowan tree.
• BARREN
  bréhaigne; of uncertain origin; cf. Arm. brékha, markha, sterile; LL. brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish 1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall. 2. Not
• ROWED
  Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.
• ROWETT
  See ROWEN
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• OVERBROW
  To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• TROW
  A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• SHROWD
  See SHROOD
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• FROWZY
  Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.
• DROW
  of Draw. Chaucer.
• DROWSY
  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
• TROWELED
  Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.
• WATER CROW
  The dipper. The European coot.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.