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Strait
(), a.A variant of Straight. [Obs.]

Strait
(), a.[Compar.Straiter (); superl.Straitest.] [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p. p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.]
1. Narrow; not broad.
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matt. vii. 14.
Too strait and low our cottage doors.
Emerson.
2. Tight; close; closely fitting. Shak.
3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor." Sir P. Sidney.
4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
Shak.
The straitest sect of our religion.
Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).
5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
Secker.
6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
Shak.

Strait
(), adv.Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] Shak.

Strait
n.; pl. Straits (). [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
Spenser.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast.
Shak.
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.
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.
De Foe.
3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
A dark strait of barren land.
Tennyson.
4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
For I am in a strait betwixt two.
Phil. i. 23.
Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
South
Strait
v. t.To put to difficulties. [Obs.] Shak.



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