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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..

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..

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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

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

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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..

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

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