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Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

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

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

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

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

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..

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

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

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..

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 (a.) A variant of Straight.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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