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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

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

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

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

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..

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

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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