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A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

One who, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

Narrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.

Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances. -- Ne*ces"si*tous*ly, adv. -- Ne*ces"si*tous*ness, n.

A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat. How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook Milton.

A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.

Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.

Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.

A high and narrow tank, with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; -- so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.…

a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. Shak.

genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.

The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.

Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.