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

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..

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

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

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

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

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

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..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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