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Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

ed as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [R.] Milton.

Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.] The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. Byron.

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

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.

h 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.

k 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.

l 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.

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

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