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Straight
·adj A variant of Strait, ·adj. II. Straight ·vt To <<Straighten>>. III. Straight ·superl Unmixed;...

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Straight-joint
·adj Having straight joints. II. Straight-joint ·adj In the United States, applied to planking or f...

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Straight-lined
·adj Having straight lines. ...

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Straight-out
·adj Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. ...

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Straight-pight
·adj Straight in form or upright in position; erect. ...

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Straight-spoken
·adj Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. ...

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straight of breadth
The space before and abaft the dead-flat, in which the ship is of the same uniform breadth as at the...

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Straight Frying Pan Alley
In Great Wood Street (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
straight as a loon's leg
is a common simile in New England. They were puzzled with the accounts; but I saw through it in a m...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.