Definition of narrow

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Narrow (superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

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Sidle :: Sidle (v. t.) To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening..
List :: List (v. t.) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal..
Leptorhine :: Leptorhine (a.) Having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.
Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
Crank :: Crank (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail..
Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..
Close :: Close (v. t.) Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters..
Narrowness :: Narrowness (n.) The condition or quality of being narrow.
Draff :: Draff (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter..
Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..
Pipsissewa :: Pipsissewa (n.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine..
Sprit :: Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Slot :: Slot (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it..
Sleeve :: Sleeve (n.) A narrow channel of water.
Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
Illiberality :: Illiberality (n.) The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness.
Mattock :: Mattock (n.) An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax..
Narrows :: Narrows (pl. ) of Narro.
Near :: Near (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape..
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