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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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