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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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