·adj A variant of Straight.
II. Strait ·superl Narrow; not broad.
III. Strait ·adv Strictly; rigorously.
IV. Strait ·adj A narrow pass or passage.
V. Strait ·vt To put to difficulties.
VI. Strait ·superl Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
VII. Strait ·superl Tight; close; closely fitting.
VIII. Strait ·superl Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
IX. Strait ·superl Close; intimate; near; familiar.
X. Strait ·superl Difficult; distressful; straited.
XI. Strait ·adj A neck of land; an Isthmus.
XII. Strait ·adj Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity;
— sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
XIII. Strait ·adj 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.