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Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

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

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

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

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..

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

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

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

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..

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..

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

Bosporus :: Bosporus (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

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

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