Definition of strait

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Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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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..
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..
Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
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..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.
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..
Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.
Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..
Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.
Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.
Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.
Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.
Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.
Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.
Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.
Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.
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