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- English Word Strait Definition Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
- English Word Strait Definition Strictly; rigorously.
- English Word Strait Definition A narrow pass or passage.
- English Word Strait Definition 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.
- English Word Strait Definition A neck of land; an isthmus.
- English Word Strait Definition Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
- English Word Strait Definition To put to difficulties.
- English Word Strait-handed Definition Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
- English Word Strait-jacket Definition A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
- English Word Strait-laced Definition Bound with stays.
- English Word Strait-laced Definition Restricted; stiff; constrained.
- English Word Strait-laced Definition Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
- English Word Strait-waistcoat Definition Same as Strait-jacket.
- English Word Straiten Definition To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
- English Word Straiten Definition To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
- English Word Straiten Definition 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.
- English Word Straitened Definition of Straiten
- English Word Straitening Definition of Straiten
- English Word Straitly Definition In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
- English Word Straitly Definition Closely; intimately.
- English Word Straitness Definition The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
- English Word Straits Definition of Strait
- English Word Strake Definition imp. of Strike.
- English Word Strake Definition A streak.
- English Word Strake Definition An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.
- English Word Strake Definition One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.
- English Word Strake Definition A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- English Word Strale Definition Pupil of the eye.
- English Word Stram Definition To spring or recoil with violence.
- English Word Stram Definition To dash down; to beat.