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

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

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

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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

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

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

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

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..

Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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