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Definition of strait

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

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Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

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

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

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..

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

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..

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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

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

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

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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

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

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

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