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Strait (?), a. A variant of
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Strait (?), a.
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Too
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] “A
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some
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The
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
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Strait (?), adv. Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.]
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Strait, n.;
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He brought him through a darksome narrow
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
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Honor travels in a
Where one but goes abreast.
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2. Specifically: (Geog.) 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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We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a
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3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
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A dark
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4. 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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For I am in a
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Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or
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Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the
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Strait, v. t. To put to difficulties. [Obs.]
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