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A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26.

A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

and over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.

d of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

A fine cord or narrow braid.

s of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

A narrow flower bed. Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or f…

age) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. "What bustling crowds I bored." Gay.

A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.