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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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