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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

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

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-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

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