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Definition of strait

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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..

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

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

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

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

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

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

Bosporus :: Bosporus (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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..

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

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

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

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..

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

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

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