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

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

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

Straightness :: Straightly (adv.) A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight.

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

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..

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

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

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

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

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 (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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

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