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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

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

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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