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Narre
() Nearer.
Narrow
() Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
Narrow
() Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Narrow
() Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.
Narrow
() Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
Narrow
() Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
Narrow
() Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Narrow
() Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
Narrow
() 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 e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13.
Narrows
() of Narrow
Narrow
() 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.
Narrowed
() of Narrow
Narrowing
() of Narrow
Narrow
() To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
Narrow
() 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.
Narrow
() To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Narrow
() To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
Narrow
() Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
Narrow
() To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
Narrower
() One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.
Narrowing
() The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.
Narrowing
() The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
Narrowly
() With little breadth; in a narrow manner.
Narrowly
() Without much extent; contractedly.
Narrowly
() With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.
Narrowly
() 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.
Narrowly
() Sparingly; parsimoniously.
Narrow-minded
() Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.
Narrowness
() The condition or quality of being narrow.
Nart
() Art not.
Narthex
() A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.
Narthex
() 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.
Narwal
() See Narwhal.
Narwe
() Narrow.
Narwhal
() 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.
Nas
() Was not.
Nas
() Has not.
Nasal
() Of or pertaining to the nose.
Nasal
() 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.
Nasal
() An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
Nasal
() A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
Nasal
() Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
Nasal
() One of the nasal bones.
Nasal
() A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Nasality
() The quality or state of being nasal.
Nasalization
() The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.
Nasalized
() of Nasalize
Nasalizing
() of Nasalize
Nasalize
() To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
Nasalize
() To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.