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

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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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