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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

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..

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

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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