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Contrabed; of confined fentiments; ungenerous.—The 
greateft underftanding is narrow. How much of God and 
nature is there, whereof we never had any idea. Grew. — 
The hopes of good from thofe whom we gratify, would 
produce a very narrow and Hinted charity. Smalridge .— ■ 
Near ; within a fmall diftance : 
Then Mneftheus to the head his arrow drove, 
Tut made a glancing fhot, and mifs’d the dove ; 
Yet mifs’d fo narrow, that he cut the cord 
Which fatten'd by the foot the flitting bird. Dryden. 
Clofe ; vigilant; attentive. — Many malicious fpies are 
fearching into the abions of a great man, who is not al¬ 
ways the belt prepared for fo narrow an inflection. Addi- 
fon's Spe&ator. 
The orb he roam’d 
With narrow fearch; and with infpebion deep 
Confider’d ev’ry creature, which of ail 
Molt opportune might ferve his wiles. Milton's P. L. 
NAR'ROW, f. A narrow paflage ; a ftrait. AJh. 
To NAR'ROW, v. a. To dimininifli with refpeb to 
breadth or widenefs.—By reafon of the.great continent of 
Brafilia, the needle deflecteth toward the land twelve de¬ 
grees ; but at the Straits of Magellan, where the land is 
narrowed, and the feaon the other fide, it varieth about 
five or fix. Brown. —A government, which by alienating 
the aftebions, lofing the opinions, and eroding the in- 
terefts, of the people, leaves out of its compafs the greateft 
part of their confent, may juftly be faid, in the fame de¬ 
gree it lofes ground, to narrow its bottom. Temple. —To 
contrail; to impair in dignity of extent or influence.— 
One fcience is incomparably above all the reft, where it is 
not by corruption narrowed into a trade, for mean or ill 
ends, and fecular interefts ; I mean theology, which con¬ 
tains the knowledge of God and his creatures. Locke. — 
To contrail in fentiment or capacity of knowledge.— 
Defuetude does contraband narrow our faculties, fo that 
We can apprehend only thofe things in which we are con- 
verfant. Gov. of the Tongue. —How hard it is to get the 
mind, narrowed by a fcanty colleilion of common ideas, 
to enlarge itfelf to a more copious flock. Locke. 
Lo ! every finifh’d fon returns to thee ; 
Bounded by nature, narrow'd ftill by art, 
A trifling head, and a contrailed heart. Pope. 
To confine ; to limit.—By admitting too many things at 
once into one qneftion, the mind is dazzled and bewil¬ 
dered; whereas, by limiting and narrowing the queftion, 
you take a fuller lurvey of the whole. Watts's Logick. — 
Our knowledge is much more narrow'd, if we confine our- 
felves to our own folitary reafonings, without much read¬ 
ing. Watts. —In farriery, a horfe is faid to narrow, when 
he does not take ground enough, and does not bear far 
enough out to the one hand or to the other. 
NAR'ROW-HEARTED, adj. Contrabed in fenti¬ 
ment; ungenerous. — Nothing more fhakes any fociety 
than mean divifions between the feveral orders of its 
members, and their narrow-hearted repining at each 
other’s gain. Sprat. 
NARROW-I'SLAND, or Stenosa, a fmall and unin¬ 
habited ifiand of the Grecian Archipelago, ealt of Maxia, 
but near it. 
NAR'ROW-MINDED, adj. Of confined fentiments.— 
He is a : narrow-minded man that aftebs a triumph in any 
ftudy. Ben Jonfon. 
NAR'ROW-NECKED, adj. Strait orcontrabed in the 
throat.—Tall narrow-necked people are often conlumptive. 
Wifeman. —It is with narrow-fouled people as with nar¬ 
row-necked bottles ; the lefs they have in them, the more 
noife they make in pouring it out. Swift's Mifccllanies. 
NAR'ROW-SOULED, adj. Contrabed in fentiment; 
ungenerous. — It is with nctrrow-fouled people as with 
narrowed-necked bottles; the lefs they have in them, the 
more noife they make in pouring it out. Swift. 
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Lore firft invented verfe, and form’d the rhime. 
The motion meafur’d, harmoniz’d the chime ; 
To lib’ral abs enlarg’d the narrow-foul'd. 
Soften’d the fierce, and made the coward bold. Drx/den. 
NAR'ROW-SPIRITED, adj. Contrabed in fpirit; faf- 
tidious.—A falamander grows familiar with a ftrangerat 
firft fight, and is not fo narrow-fpirited as to obferve whe- 
thei the perfon fire talks to be in breeches or in petticoats. 
Add fon. 1 
NAR'ROWING, f. A narrow place; a narrow part. 
AJh, —The ab of ftraitening, or making narrow. 
NAR'ROWLY, adv. With little breadth or widenefs ; 
with fmall diftance between the tides. — Contrabedly; 
without extent — The church of England is not fo nar¬ 
rowly calculated, that it cannot fall in with any regular 
fpecies of government. Swift .— Clofely; vigilantly; at¬ 
tentively.—Fora confiderable treafure hid in my vine¬ 
yard, fearch narrowly when I am gone L'Eflrange. —A 
man’s reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly 
infpeb every part of him. Addi/bn. —Nearly ; within a 
little.—Some private veflels took one of the Aquapulca 
fhips, and very narrowly miffed of the other Swift. 
My fellow-fchoolmalter 
Doth watch Bianca’s Heps fo narrowly. Sktdtcfpeare. 
Avaricioufly; fparingly. 
NAR'ROWNESS,,/ Want of breadth or widenefs.—• 
The height of buildings, and narrownefs of ftreets, keep 
away the fun-beams. Burton's Anat. of Mel— In our 
Gothick cathedrals, the narrownefs of the arch makes it 
rife in height, or run out in length. Addifon on Italy.— 
Want of extent; want of comprehenfion.—That prince, 
who Ihould be fo wife and godlike, as by eftablilhed laws 
of liberty to lecure protebion and encouragemenr to the 
hor.efl induftry of mankind, againft die oppreflion of 
power and narrownefs of party, will quickly be too hard 
for his neighbours. Locke.— -Confined ftate; contrabed- 
nefs.—The mod learned and ingenious fociety in Europe, 
confefs the narrownejs of human attainments. Glanville .— 
The Latin, a levere and compendious language, often 
expreffes that in one word, Which either the barbarity or 
the narrownejs of modern tongues cannot fupply in more. 
Dryden. 
Cheap vulgar arts, whofe narroxenefs affords 
No flight for thoughts, but poorly flicks at words. Denham. 
Meannefs; poverty; [neapaneppe, Sax.]—If God will fit 
thee for this paflage, by taking off thy load and emptying 
thy bags, and fo fuit the narrownejs of thy fortune to the 
narrownefs of the way thou art to pafs, is there any thing 
but mercy in all this ? South .— Want of capacity.—Such 
is the poornefs of fome fpirits, and the narrowne/s of their 
fouls; and they are fa nailed to the earth. Howell's Indraft, 
for Trav. 
NAR'ROWS (The), a narrow paflage from the fea, 
between Long and Staten iflands, into the bay which 
fpreads before New York city : nine miles fouth of it.— 
A ftrait about three miles broad, between the iflands of 
Nevis and St. Chriftopher in the Weft Indies.—A ftrait, 
called “ Petit Droit,” in the river St. Lawrence, in Upper 
Canada, between Granadier-ifland and the townfliip of 
Elcot, now included in Yonge. 
NARRYTAMO'E, a province of Thibet, north of 
Napaul. 
NARSAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Ellore, on the Godavery: forty miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Ellore. 
NARSAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ellore: twenty-five miles north-weft of Ellore.—A town 
of Hindooftan, in Golconda : ten miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Damapetta.—A town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : twen¬ 
ty-two miles north of Bangalore. 
NARSERA'Y, a town of Hindooftan in Mewat: ten 
miles fouth of Cotputly. 
NAR'SES the Eunuch. See the article Rome. 
NARSINEN',. 
