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To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

ith secrecy; clandestine; concealed. [Obs.] Not close and clancular, but frank and open. Barrow.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.

another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]

A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

nding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.

The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow.

as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.] The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

A collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.