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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

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

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