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plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a distance in the narrower part of the converging cone of rays, usually near the middle of the tube.

enney, entitled "Raising the wind." The name is applied to any needy, tricky, constant borrower; a confidence man.

the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

A thrower of the discus.

To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.

Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.

e at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

ed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.

o the ground plan a form resembling the letter L; sometimes less properly applied to a narrower, or lower, extension in the direction of the length of the main building; a wing. [Written also ell.]

One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.

m from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.

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

To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good car.

One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.

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

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

In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.

a danger to the community. The tendency of judicial and popular usage is towards this narrower definition.