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Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

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

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

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..

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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

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

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

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

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..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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

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

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