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STRAIT
Boy/Male
Biblical
Root, that straitens or binds, that keeps tight.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Straight.
Boy/Male
American, British, Celtic, Chinese, Christian, English, German, Hebrew, Indian, Irish, Jamaican
Narrow; Channel; Strait; Near the Chapel; A Place-name Referring to the Narrows; A Wood; A Church; Fair and Handsome; Crowned with Laurel; Victory; Slender
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname for a swift runner or a timorous person, from Middle High German, Middle Low German hase ‘hare’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Hase ‘hare’.English : from a Middle English nickname, Hase, from Old English hÄs ‘harsh, raucous, or hoarse voice’.Japanese : usually written with characters meaning ‘long valley’; habitational name from a place in Yamato (now Nara prefecture). Listed in the Shinsen shÅjiroku. Some bearers are descended from the Taira clan; they are found mainly in eastern Japan. Also pronounced Nagaya and Nagatani; the original pronunciation was Hatsuse, meaning ‘beginning of the strait’.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
One who Releases Another from Straitened Circumstances; An Epithet of Allah
Surname or Lastname
Swedish and Danish
Swedish and Danish : from sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’, probably an arbitrarily adopted or ornamental surname, but possibly a topographic name adopted by someone who lived near the shore by a strait.Norwegian : habitational name from any of twenty-five or more farmsteads, mainly in Nordland, so named from Old Norse sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’.English : nickname for a healthy or prosperous man, from Middle English sund, sound ‘sound’, ‘healthy’.English : topographic name from Middle English sund, sound ‘water’, ‘strait’, ‘sound’.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for someone who dealt in weights and measures, for example a grain factor, from Middle English pekke ‘peck’ (an old measure of dry goods equivalent to eight quarts or a quarter of a bushel).English : variant of Peak 1.Irish : variant of Peak 2.South German : variant of Beck.North German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch, from Middle Low German pek, Middle Dutch pec, pic.Dutch : from Middle Dutch pec, pick ‘desperate straits’, hence a nickname for a person in difficult circumstances or perhaps for someone with a gloomy disposition.
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Boy/Male
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Filled with the Joy of Life; Imaginative and Enthusiastic; King of Men
Surname or Lastname
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English
Possibly an Americanized spelling of Czech and Slovak ÄŒech (see Cech), or other Slavic or German ethnic names for a Czech.English : unexplained.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
A House; Swift
Girl/Female
Finnish, French, Indian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh, Telugu
Injunctions; Is Considered; Opinion; Mother
Girl/Female
Sikh
Boy/Male
French, German, Hebrew
Archer; Yew Wood; Yew Wood was Used for Bows; Yew Tree
Boy/Male
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Muslim
Irritable; Impatient
Girl/Female
Afghan, African, Arabic, Assamese, Australian, Gujarati, Indian, Kannada, Muslim, Swahili
A Smile
Female
African
we are grateful.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Greater, Bigger, Senior
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adv.
Narrowly; strictly; straitly.
v. t.
To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Straiten
n.
Same as Strait-jacket.
v. t.
See Straiten.
adv.
In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
a.
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
v. i.
To pass over a strait or narrow sea.
v. t.
To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
n.
The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.
n.
The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
a.
A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw.
a., n., & adv.
See 2nd Strait.
pl.
of Strait
superl.
Difficult; distressful; straited.
imp. & p. p.
of Straiten
n.
A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan.
v. t.
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
v. t.
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
v. t.
To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.