SPage 834
- 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.