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

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

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

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

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

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

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

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

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

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

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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