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Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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