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2. To contract the reach or sphere of; to
make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict;
as, to narrow one's views or knowledge; to narrow a
question in discussion.

Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we
confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings.

3. (Knitting) To contract the size of,
as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

Nar"row, v. i. 1.
To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the
sea narrows into a strait.

2. (Man.) Not to step out enough to
the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows.
Farrier's Dict.

3. (Knitting) To contract the size of
a stocking or other knit article, by taking two stitches into
one.

Nar"row*er (?), n. One who, or
that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.

Nar"row*ing, n. 1.


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