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

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

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

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

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

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

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..

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..

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

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..

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..

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

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

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

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

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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

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

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