Proof; evidence.
A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it.
A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation.
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
Matter for question; business in hand.
The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends; as, the altitude is the argument of the refraction.
The independent variable upon whose value that of a function depends.
To make an argument; to argue.
Rough; stern; angry.
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
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.
The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
To use the oar; as, to row well.
To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.