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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-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..

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

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

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

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

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

Streighten :: Streight (a., n., & adv.) See 2nd Strait..

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

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

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

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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