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

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

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..

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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