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Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

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

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

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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

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

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..

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

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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