SPage 830
- English Word Straight Definition Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush.
- English Word Straight Definition Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.
- English Word Straight Definition Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight.
- English Word Straight Definition Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot.
- English Word Straight Definition In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark.
- English Word Straight Definition A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush.
- English Word Straight Definition To straighten.
- English Word Straight-joint Definition Having straight joints.
- English Word Straight-joint Definition Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
- English Word Straight-joint Definition In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
- English Word Straight-lined Definition Having straight lines.
- English Word Straight-out Definition Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
- English Word Straight-pight Definition Straight in form or upright in position; erect.
- English Word Straight-spoken Definition Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
- English Word Straighted Definition of Straighten
- English Word Straightedge Definition A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
- English Word Straighten Definition To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
- English Word Straighten Definition To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
- English Word Straighten Definition A variant of Straiten.
- English Word Straightener Definition One who, or that which, straightens.