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

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

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

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

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

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..

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

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

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

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