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  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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