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cannot cxprefs a smaller proportional width by this term. 

 And as we have no other word to exprefs fpace in these 

 circumitances, we have been obliged to force the word 

 narrow from its natural signification, and make it exprefs 

 this. See Narrow. 



3. In some particular cases narrow or stroit may be em- 

 ployed to denote the same object ; as a narro^Ji' or a strait 

 lane : but here Jtrnit is never employed but where ah idea 

 of confinement is suggested, and where it is exactly con- 

 trasted to wide J nor can narrow be employed but in «uch 

 circumstances where broad would be a perfect contrast to 

 it. Therefore these two terms may be always employed 

 in the same circumstances as those which contrast them 

 may be. For an account of which, see Wide. 



4. Strait is also employed to denote a narrow opening 

 lin the land, through which- the sea flows, as the Straits 

 of Gibraltar, the Straits of Dover, the Straits of Sun- 

 da, iS'c. This word ought n«ver to be confounded with. 

 straight. See Straight. 



5. The term strait is likewise, in a particular manner, 

 used to denote the smallnefs of the internal diameter of 

 those small bodies which are fitted to receive or contain 

 others, as any kind of bag, tube, body-clothes, raortoises, 

 and others of the same kind ; and in all these cases this 

 term may be employed to denote the smallnefs of their lef^ 

 ser diameter, and never the term narrow. But in cer- 

 tain circumstances the word tight may be substituted for 

 it. See Tight. 



6. Strait, in a figurative sense, denotes any sort of con- 

 finement of sentiment or disposition. 



Tight, adj. A term employed in certain circumstances 

 to denote the internal capacity of particular bodies j nearly 

 synonymous with strait. 



