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- English Word Narrow Definition To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
- English Word Narrow Definition To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- English Word Narrow Definition To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
- English Word Narrow Definition To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
- English Word Narrow Definition Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- English Word Narrow Definition To contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.
- English Word Narrow-minded Definition Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.
- English Word Narrowed Definition of Narrow
- English Word Narrower Definition One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
- English Word Narrowing Definition The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
- English Word Narrowing Definition of Narrow
- English Word Narrowing Definition The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
- English Word Narrowly Definition With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.
- English Word Narrowly Definition Without much extent; contractedly.
- English Word Narrowly Definition With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.
- English Word Narrowly Definition Sparingly; parsimoniously.
- English Word Narrowly Definition With little breadth; in a narrow manner.
- English Word Narrowness Definition The condition or quality of being narrow.
- English Word Narrows Definition of Narrow
- English Word Nart Definition Art not.
- English Word Narthex Definition The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.
- English Word Narthex Definition A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.
- English Word Narwal Definition See Narwhal.
- English Word Narwe Definition Narrow.
- English Word Narwhal Definition An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.
- English Word Nas Definition Has not.
- English Word Nas Definition Was not.
- English Word Nasal Definition Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
- English Word Nasal Definition An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
- English Word Nasal Definition Of or pertaining to the nose.