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Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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..

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

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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

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

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

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..

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..

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

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

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

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

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..

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

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

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