Nar"row-mind`ed (?), a. Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. --
Nar"row- mind`ed*ness, n.
Nar"row*ness, n. [AS. nearunes.] The condition or quality of being
narrow.
Nart (?). [For ne art.] Art not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Nar"thex (?), n. [L., giant fennel, Gr. &?;.] 1. (Bot.) A tall
||umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under
||Fennel.
2. (Arch.) The portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the
atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories; -- used, generally,
for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a
church.
Nar"wal (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Narwhal.
Nar"we (?), a. Narrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nar"whal (?), n. [Sw. or Dan. narvhal; akin to Icel. nhvalr, and E.
whale. the first syllable is perh. from Icel. nr corpse, dead body, in
allusion to the whitish color its skin. See Whale.] [Written also
narwhale.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Nas (näz). [For ne was.] Was not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Nas. [Contr. fr. ne has.] Has not. [Obs.] Spenser.
Na"sal (n"zal), a. [F., from L. nasus the nose. See Nose.] 1. (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the nose.
2. (Phon.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and
specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with
closure of the oral 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 (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the
base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as
the standard, equal to 100.
Na"sal, n. 1. An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or
through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
2. (Med.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
[Archaic]
3. (Anc. Armor) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose
guard.