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One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions…

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

ty of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. "One next himself in power, and next in crime." Milton.

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. [R.] J. Young.

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel. The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. Shak.

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.

very and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness. Chaucer. Sir P. Sidney. He by his prowess conquered all France. Shak.

Formed with or like a rainbow.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

To rescue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [Obs.]

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

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.

One who rows with an oar.

See Rowen.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.