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Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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

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..

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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..

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

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

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

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

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

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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