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straiter |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. {Straiter}; superl. {Straitest}.] [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF estreit, estroit F. ['e]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.
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