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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

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..

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

Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

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

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

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..

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..

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

Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

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