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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

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..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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

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..

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

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..

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

Strait :: 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..

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

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