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Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

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

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

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..

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

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

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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