Hypertext Webster Gateway: "straitest"

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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