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Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

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..

Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

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..

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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

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

Straight :: Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a..

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

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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