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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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-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..

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

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

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

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 (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..

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

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..

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

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