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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..

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..

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

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

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