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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..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

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

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..

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

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

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