adv. (old colloquial).—1. Ne’er a; not one.
1750. FIELDING, Tom Jones, VIII., ii. I warrants me there is NARROW a one of all those officer fellows but looks upon himself to be as good as arrow a squire of £500 a year.
1711. SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 186. As for master and the young squire, they have as yet had NARRO glimpse of the new light.
Adj. (colloquial).—1. See quot., and NEAR.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NARROW. A NARROW-SOUL’D Fellow, poor or mean-spirited, stingy.
2. (common).—Stupid; foolish; the reverse of FLY (q.v.) or WIDE-AWAKE (q.v.).
3. (bowlers’).—See quot.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NARROW. When the Bias of the Bowl holds too much.
4. (old).—See quot.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NARROW. NARROW or NEAR search, Watch him narrowly or nearly. Ibid. Of a NARROW or slender Fortune.
ALL NARROW, adv. phr. (old).—See quot.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. NARROW. ’TIS ALL NARROW. Said by the Butchers one to another when their meat proves not so good as expected.
