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A variant of Straight. |
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Narrow; not broad. |
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Tight; close; closely fitting. |
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Close; intimate; near; familiar. |
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Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. |
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Difficult; distressful; straited. |
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Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. |
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Strictly; rigorously. |
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A narrow pass or passage. |
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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. |
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A neck of land; an isthmus. |
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Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural;
as, reduced to great straits. |
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To put to difficulties. |
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