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

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

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

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..

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

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

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..

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