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One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.

The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

The condition or quality of being narrow.

Art not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mbulatories; -- used, generally, for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.

See Narwhal.

Narrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.…

Was not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

al passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index…

The quality or state of being nasal.

The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.

To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.

State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

ng, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.

A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. [Written also nisberry.]

Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.