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STRAIT, a. [See Straight.]

1. Narrow; close; not broad.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7.

2. Close; intimate; as a strait degree of favor.

3. Strict; rigorous.

He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform some certain edicts, and some strait decrees.

4. Difficult; distressful.

5. Straight; not crooked.

STRAIT, n. [See Straight.]

1. A narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land; as the straits of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the straits of Dover. [In this sense, the plural is more generally used than the singular, and often without any apparent reason or propriety.]

2. Distress; difficulty; distressing necessity; formerly written streight. [Used either in the singular or plural.]

Let no man who owns a providence, become desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.

STRAIT, v.t. To put to difficulties. [Not in use.]

1913 Definition
Strait (strait)
a.(?)
Strait
  1. A variant of Straight.
    [Obs.]
  2. 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.

  3. Tight; close; closely fitting.
    Shak.
  4. Close; intimate; near; familiar.
    [Obs.] "A strait degree of favor." Sir P. Sidney.
  5. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

    Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. Shak.

    The straitest sect of our religion. Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).

  6. Difficult; distressful; straited.

    To make your strait circumstances yet straiter. Secker.

  7. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.
    [Obs.]

    I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
    And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
    Shak.

  8. Strictly; rigorously.
    [Obs.] Shak.
  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. A neck of land; an isthmus.
    [R.]

    A dark strait of barren land. Tennyson.

  12. 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.

    Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. Broome.

  13. To put to difficulties.
    [Obs.] Shak.

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