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Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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