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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Narrow; strait.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Narrow; strait; contracted; not spacious.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Narrow; strait.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin angustus. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “If, as Tycho proves, the moon be distant from us fifty and sixty semi-diameters of the earth: and as Peter Nonius will have it, the air be so angust, what proportion is there betwixt the other three elements and it?”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Nevertheless, if the res angustœ domi get straiter than usual, we are always liable to send our families across the water to spend a season in the practice of economy in some land where it costs less to live.”

    The Tyranny of Things

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  • biocon Pronounced an`gǝst Aug 6, 2011

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