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Narrow
NARROW, a. I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow, strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow, close, G. with a prefix. In this case, the word belongs to the root of nigh; to approach.
1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow sea; a narrow hem or border. It is only or chiefly applied to the surface of flat or level bodies.
2. Of little extent; very limited; as a narrow space or compass.
3. Covetous; not liberal or bountiful; as a narrow heart.
4. Contracted; of confined views or sentiments; very limited.
The greatest understanding is narrow.
In this sense and the former, it is often prefixed to mind or soul, _ c. ; as narrow-minded; narrow-souled; narrow-hearted.
5. Near; within a small distance.
6. Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; as a narrow search; narrow inspection.
7. Near; barely sufficient to avoid evil; as a narrow escape.
NARROW, n. A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.
narrow appears in definitions for these words:
Abroad Acrothymion Alley America Anger Anguish Angust Angustation Angusticlave Anise Annulet Arktizite Ax Band Basin Bay Belt Bird Bladed Bonten Bore Bosporian Bosporus Bottle Bow Broad Bucket Calabash-tree Canal Cat Catholic Channel Chest Chinky Churlish Clap-board Clarion Clip Clivers Close Closeness Coarctation Cole-seed Compass Compendious Compendiousness Comprehension Comprehensiveness Compress Compressed Compressible Compression Concentrated Concentrating Concentration Condensed Constipate Constrict Constringe Contract Contracted Contractedness Contracting Contraction Coop Cooped Coralloidal Crack Cramp Crank Cranny Crib Culmiferous Custody Debouch Defile Defiling Dell Diminutive Dingle Edge Edging Epitomize Espy Estuary Euripus Eye Fair Fastigiate Ferret Ferry Ferryboat Fether Fimbriated Find Fissure Fistula Flagon Floating-bridge Flounce Footbridge Footpath Force Frith Funambulatory Furrow Gallery Gangway Ginger Glottis Gondola Gorge Gryphite Hellespont Hole Holing-ax Hyacinth Illiberality Impen Importance Imposition Incage Incaged Incaging Incapacious Incapaciousness Inkle Insinuate Interstice Isthmus Jetty Jug Just Label Labiate Landstreight Lane Lath Liberal Liberalize Liberalized Liberalizing Limited Loke Look Man Meanly Modesty-piece Moss Mucronate Narrow Narrowings Narrowly Narrowness Narrows Near Necessitous Neck Niggard Nigh Nook Notch Obovate Obverse Omphacite Pale Panton Parceling Parsimonious Part Pass Path Pathway Peep Peer Pen Pendant Peninsula Penstock Pew Picket Pink Pink-eyed Piragua Place Plad Plait Point Polypus Poorness Prier Pry Quarter Rail Ransacked Ransacking Rib Ribin Rummage Scantiness Scantly Scantness Scanty Scapulary Scrutiny Sedge Separate Shaft Shoeinghorn Short Shred Skep Slat Slip Slit Sloat Sound Spacious Spatulate Species Spiritedness Spit Spout Spouted Spouting Sprit Spurway Spy Squirt Stave Stenographer Stingy Stint Straight Straighten Straightened Straightening Straightness Strait Straiten Straitly Straitness Strake Strap Streight Stretcher Striated Strip Stripe Stuff Succinct Summarily Summary Swash Tape Taper Tenuifolious Thin Thred Thrid Tipped Toot Tornado Tract Transfretation Trench Tube Tuck Tung Tunnel-net Turbinate Turfing-spade Unenlarged Unguiculate Wide
Abroad Acrothymion Alley America Anger Anguish Angust Angustation Angusticlave Anise Annulet Arktizite Ax Band Basin Bay Belt Bird Bladed Bonten Bore Bosporian Bosporus Bottle Bow Broad Bucket Calabash-tree Canal Cat Catholic Channel Chest Chinky Churlish Clap-board Clarion Clip Clivers Close Closeness Coarctation Cole-seed Compass Compendious Compendiousness Comprehension Comprehensiveness Compress Compressed Compressible Compression Concentrated Concentrating Concentration Condensed Constipate Constrict Constringe Contract Contracted Contractedness Contracting Contraction Coop Cooped Coralloidal Crack Cramp Crank Cranny Crib Culmiferous Custody Debouch Defile Defiling Dell Diminutive Dingle Edge Edging Epitomize Espy Estuary Euripus Eye Fair Fastigiate Ferret Ferry Ferryboat Fether Fimbriated Find Fissure Fistula Flagon Floating-bridge Flounce Footbridge Footpath Force Frith Funambulatory Furrow Gallery Gangway Ginger Glottis Gondola Gorge Gryphite Hellespont Hole Holing-ax Hyacinth Illiberality Impen Importance Imposition Incage Incaged Incaging Incapacious Incapaciousness Inkle Insinuate Interstice Isthmus Jetty Jug Just Label Labiate Landstreight Lane Lath Liberal Liberalize Liberalized Liberalizing Limited Loke Look Man Meanly Modesty-piece Moss Mucronate Narrow Narrowings Narrowly Narrowness Narrows Near Necessitous Neck Niggard Nigh Nook Notch Obovate Obverse Omphacite Pale Panton Parceling Parsimonious Part Pass Path Pathway Peep Peer Pen Pendant Peninsula Penstock Pew Picket Pink Pink-eyed Piragua Place Plad Plait Point Polypus Poorness Prier Pry Quarter Rail Ransacked Ransacking Rib Ribin Rummage Scantiness Scantly Scantness Scanty Scapulary Scrutiny Sedge Separate Shaft Shoeinghorn Short Shred Skep Slat Slip Slit Sloat Sound Spacious Spatulate Species Spiritedness Spit Spout Spouted Spouting Sprit Spurway Spy Squirt Stave Stenographer Stingy Stint Straight Straighten Straightened Straightening Straightness Strait Straiten Straitly Straitness Strake Strap Streight Stretcher Striated Strip Stripe Stuff Succinct Summarily Summary Swash Tape Taper Tenuifolious Thin Thred Thrid Tipped Toot Tornado Tract Transfretation Trench Tube Tuck Tung Tunnel-net Turbinate Turfing-spade Unenlarged Unguiculate Wide
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