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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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

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

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..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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

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..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

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

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..

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