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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..

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.

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

Strait :: 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..

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

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

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