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Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

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

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

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

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..

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..

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