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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.

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

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

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..

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

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 :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

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

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

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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..

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