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

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

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

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..

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..

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

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

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

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

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..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

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..

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..

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

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

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

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

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