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Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

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

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

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

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

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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