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

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

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

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..

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

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