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Nar"row (năr"r&ouptack_;), a. [Compar. Narrower (năr"r&ouptack_;*&etilde_;r); superl. Narrowest.] [OE. narwe, naru, AS. nearu; akin to OS. naru, naro.] 1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
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Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. Shak.
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2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
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The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. Bp. Wilkins.
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3. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near{5}; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow miss; a narrow majority. Dryden.
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4. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
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5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. “A narrow understanding.” Macaulay.
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6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
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A very narrow and stinted charity. Smalridge.
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7. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
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But first with narrow search I must walk round
This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton.
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8. (Phon.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as &ē; (&ē;ve) and &oō_; (f&oō_;d), etc., from ĭ (ĭll) and &oobreve_; (f&oobreve_;t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, §13.
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&hand_; Narrow is not unfrequently prefixed to words, especially to participles and adjectives, forming compounds of obvious signification; as, narrow-bordered, narrow-brimmed, narrow-breasted, narrow-edged, narrow-faced, narrow-headed, narrow-leaved, narrow-pointed, narrow-souled, narrow-sphered, etc.
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Narrow gauge. (Railroad) See Note under Gauge, n., 6.
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Nar"row (?), n.; pl. Narrows (&unr_;). 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.
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Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous
narrow. Gladstone.
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Nar"row, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narrowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Narrowing.] [AS. nearwian.] 1. To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. Sir W. Temple.
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2. 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.
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Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings. I. Watts.
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3. (Knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
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Nar"row, v. i. 1. To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
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2. (Man.) Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows. Farrier's Dict.
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3. (Knitting) To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
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