1. adj., angustus (not wide; opposed to latus): artus (more correct than arctus, confined, limited; opposed to laxus): contractus (contracted, more cognate with angustus than with artus; hence (The words are found in this connection and order.) contractus et angustus; e.g., Nilus): perangustus (eery narrow). Narrow meaning of a word, *angustior vocis notio: to make narrow, angustum reddere; angustare; coartare; contrahere: to become narrow, in artius coire: the limits of the world are too narrow for him, orbis terrarum eum non capit (after Curt., 7, 8, 12): a narrow road, angustum iter: a narrow entrance, artior introitus: a narrow escape, mostly expressed by vix, aegre: I had a very narrow escape of being, nihil aegrius factum est, multo labore meo, quam ut, etc. (Cic.): or by propius nihil est factum, quam ut, etc. (e.g., occideretur, Cic.): or non multum or paullum (not parum) abfuit, quin: a narrow mind, angustus animus (Cic.): narrow-minded, tenuis animi; angusti animi et parvi; pusilli animi et contracti: he is narrow-minded, ejus animus invidiae angustiis continetur.