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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

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..

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..

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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