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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..

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

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

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..

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

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

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

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

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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