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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 (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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

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

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..

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 strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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