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

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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

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

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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..

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

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

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