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Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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