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

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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 (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

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..

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

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..

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

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

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

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

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