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The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.

A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.

The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.

A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. Abp. Thomson.

umpet, an instrument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person. -- Ear vesicle (Zoöl.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, moll…

terfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

Narrowing towards the top.

the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

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

A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.