A tight waistcoat, with long sleeves coming over the hand, having strings for binding them behind the back of the wearer: these waistcoats are used in madhouses for the management of lunatics when outrageous.
·noun ·same·as Strait-jacket. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume. II. Waistcoat ·noun A ...
·adj A variant of Straight. II. Strait ·superl Narrow; not broad. III. Strait ·adv Strictly; rigor...
, or straight. A passage connecting one part of a sea with another; as, the Straits of Gibraltar, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. ...
·noun A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It h...
·adj Bound with stays. II. Strait-laced ·adj Restricted; stiff; constrained. III. Strait-laced ·ad...
Precise, over nice, puritanical. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
An arm of the sea running into the land through a narrow entrance channel, as the Gulf of Venice. Th...