·superl Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
II. Narrow ·superl Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
III. Narrow ·superl Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
IV. Narrow ·superl Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.
V. Narrow ·vt To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
VI. Narrow ·vi Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
VII. Narrow ·superl Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views.
VIII. Narrow ·vi To contract the size of a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into one.
IX. Narrow ·vi To become less broad; to Contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.
X. Narrow ·vt To lessen the breadth of; to Contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
XI. Narrow ·superl Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
XII. Narrow ·noun 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.
XIII. Narrow ·superl 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.
XIV. Narrow ·vt 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.
XV. Narrow ·superl 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.