| slovo | definícia |
trait
(mass) | trait
- vlastnosť |
trait
(encz) | trait,charakter n: Zdeněk Brož |
trait
(encz) | trait,rys n: Zdeněk Brož |
trait
(encz) | trait,vlastnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
trait
(encz) | trait,znak n: Ondřej Šeda |
Trait
(gcide) | Trait \Trait\, n. [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See
Trace, v., and cf. Tract a region, Trace a strap,
Tret.]
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1. A stroke; a touch.
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By this single trait Homer makes an essential
difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. --Broome.
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2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a
trait of character.
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Note: Formerly pronounced tr[=a], as in French, and still so
pronounced to some extent in England.
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trait
(wn) | trait
n 1: a distinguishing feature of your personal nature |
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portrait
(mass) | portrait
- portrét |
selfportrait
(mass) | self-portrait
- autoportrét |
strait
(mass) | strait
- úzky |
straiten
(mass) | straiten
- obmedziť |
be in dire straits
(encz) | be in dire straits,být ve velkých potížích [id.] Pinobe in dire straits,téci komu do bot [id.] Pino |
desperate straits
(encz) | desperate straits, n: |
dire straits
(encz) | dire straits, n: |
distrait
(encz) | distrait,duchem nepřítomný Zdeněk Broždistrait,roztržitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
in dire straits
(encz) | in dire straits, |
in straitened circumstances
(encz) | in straitened circumstances, adj: |
portrait
(encz) | portrait,podobizna n: Pinoportrait,portrét n: Pavel Machek; Giza |
portrait camera
(encz) | portrait camera, n: |
portrait lens
(encz) | portrait lens, n: |
portrait painter
(encz) | portrait painter, n: |
portraitist
(encz) | portraitist,portrétista n: Zdeněk Brož |
portraits
(encz) | portraits,portréty n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
portraiture
(encz) | portraiture,portrét n: Zdeněk Brožportraiture,portrétování n: Zdeněk Brož |
self-portrait
(encz) | self-portrait,autoportrét n: PetrV |
strait
(encz) | strait,těsný adj: Zdeněk Brožstrait,úzký adj: Zdeněk Brožstrait,úzký průliv n: Pinostrait,úžina n: Zdeněk Brož |
strait and narrow
(encz) | strait and narrow, n: |
strait-jacket
(encz) | strait-jacket,svěrací kazajka Zdeněk Brož |
strait-laced
(encz) | strait-laced,moralistický adj: Petr Prášekstrait-laced,pruderní adj: Petr Prášekstrait-laced,puritánský adj: Petr Prášek |
straiten
(encz) | straiten,omezit v: Zdeněk Brožstraiten,stísnit v: Zdeněk Brožstraiten,zúžit v: Zdeněk Brož |
straitened
(encz) | straitened,stísněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
straitjacket
(encz) | straitjacket,svěrací kazajka n: Zdeněk Brož |
straitlaced
(encz) | straitlaced, |
straits
(encz) | straits,tísně n: pl. Zdeněk Brožstraits,úžiny n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
traitor
(encz) | traitor,zrádce n: Zdeněk Brož |
traitorous
(encz) | traitorous,vlastizrádný adj: Zdeněk Brožtraitorous,zrádný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
traitorously
(encz) | traitorously,vlastizrádně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
traitorousness
(encz) | traitorousness, n: |
traitors
(encz) | traitors,zrádci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
traitress
(encz) | traitress, n: |
traits
(encz) | traits,rysy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Archtraitor
(gcide) | Archtraitor \Arch`trai"tor\, n. [Pref. arch- + traitor.]
A chief or transcendent traitor. --I. Watts.
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Composite portrait
(gcide) | Composite \Com*pos"ite\ (?; 277), a. [L. compositus made up of
parts, p. p. of componere. See Compound, v. t., and cf.
Compost.]
1. Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a
composite language.
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Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite.
--Landor.
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2. (Arch.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of
the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called
also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the
five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the
sixteenth century. See Capital.
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3. (Bot.) Belonging to the order Composit[ae]; bearing
involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy,
thistle, and dandelion.
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Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of
different classes. [Eng.]
Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly
by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3..
Composite photograph or Composite portrait, one made by a
combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs.
--F. Galton.
Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and
great circle sailing.
Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.
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Distrait
(gcide) | Distrait \Dis`trait"\, a. [F. See Distract.]
Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
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Overstraitly
(gcide) | Overstraitly \O`ver*strait"ly\, adv.
Too straitly or strictly. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
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Portrait
(gcide) | Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
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In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
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Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
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2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
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Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue.
[1913 Webster]Portrait \Por"trait\, v. t.
To portray; to draw. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Portrait bust
(gcide) | Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
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In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
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Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
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2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
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Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue.
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Portrait statue
(gcide) | Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to
portray. See Portray.]
1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved;
commonly, a representation of the human face painted from
real life.
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In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the
likeness, consists more in the general air than in
the exact similitude of every feature. --Sir J.
Reynolds.
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Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to
include a photographic likeness.
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2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of
a person; as, a portrait in words.
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Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue
representing the actual features or person of an
individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or
statue.
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Portraitist
(gcide) | Portraitist \Por"trait*ist\, n.
A portrait painter. [R.] --Hamerton.
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Portraiture
(gcide) | Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
[1913 Webster]Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that
which is copied from some example or model.
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For, by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his. --Shak.
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Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon.
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2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
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Retrait
(gcide) | Retrait \Re*trait"\ (r[-e]*tr[=a]t"), n. [It. ritratto, fr.
ritrarre to draw back, draw, fr. L. retrahere. See
Retract.]
A portrait; a likeness. [Obs.]
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Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear. --Spenser.
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Strait
(gcide) | Strait \Strait\, adv.
Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
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He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser.
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Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: (Geog.) 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.
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We steered directly through a large outlet which
they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
broad. --De Foe.
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3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
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A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson.
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4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
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For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23.
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Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.
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Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
time in his thoughts. --Broome.
[1913 Webster]Strait \Strait\, a.
A variant of Straight. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]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.
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Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
--Matt. vii.
14.
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Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree
of favor." --Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.
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The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5
(Rev. Ver.).
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
--Secker.
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Strait \Strait\, v. t.
To put to difficulties. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Straiten
(gcide) | Straiten \Strait"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Straitened; p. pr. &
vb. n. Straitening.]
1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to
confine.
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Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges,
give a roaring noise. --Bacon.
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In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. --Milton.
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2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
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They straiten at each end the cord. --Pope.
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3. 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.
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Straitened
(gcide) | Straiten \Strait"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Straitened; p. pr. &
vb. n. Straitening.]
1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to
confine.
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Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges,
give a roaring noise. --Bacon.
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In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. --Milton.
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2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
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They straiten at each end the cord. --Pope.
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3. 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.
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Straitening
(gcide) | Straiten \Strait"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Straitened; p. pr. &
vb. n. Straitening.]
1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to
confine.
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Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges,
give a roaring noise. --Bacon.
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In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. --Milton.
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2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
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They straiten at each end the cord. --Pope.
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3. 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.
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Straiter
(gcide) | 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.
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Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
--Matt. vii.
14.
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Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree
of favor." --Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.
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The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5
(Rev. Ver.).
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
--Secker.
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
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Straitest
(gcide) | 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.
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Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
--Matt. vii.
14.
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Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree
of favor." --Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.
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The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5
(Rev. Ver.).
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
--Secker.
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
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Strait-handed
(gcide) | Strait-handed \Strait"-hand`ed\, a.
Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [R.] --
Strait"-hand`ed*ness, n. [R.]
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Strait-handedness
(gcide) | Strait-handed \Strait"-hand`ed\, a.
Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. [R.] --
Strait"-hand`ed*ness, n. [R.]
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Strait-jacket
(gcide) | Strait-jacket \Strait"-jack`et\, n.
A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those
who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are
closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied
behind the back.
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Strait-laced
(gcide) | Strait-laced \Strait"-laced`\, a.
1. Bound with stays.
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Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she
thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are
strait-laced. --Locke.
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2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] --Fuller.
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3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
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Straitly
(gcide) | Straitly \Strait"ly\, adv.
1. In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously. --Mark
i. 43.
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2. Closely; intimately. [Obs.]
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Straitness
(gcide) | Straitness \Strait"ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a
pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the
straitnessof their circumstances.
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Straits
(gcide) | Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
1. A narrow pass or passage.
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He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser.
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Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast. --Shak.
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2. Specifically: (Geog.) 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.
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We steered directly through a large outlet which
they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
broad. --De Foe.
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3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]
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A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson.
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4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
the plural; as, reduced to great straits.
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For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23.
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Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.
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Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
time in his thoughts. --Broome.
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Strait-waistcoat
(gcide) | Strait-waistcoat \Strait"-waist`coat\, n.
Same as Strait-jacket.
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Trait
(gcide) | Trait \Trait\, n. [F., fr. L. tractus, fr. trahere to draw. See
Trace, v., and cf. Tract a region, Trace a strap,
Tret.]
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1. A stroke; a touch.
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By this single trait Homer makes an essential
difference between the Iliad and Odyssey. --Broome.
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2. A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a
trait of character.
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Note: Formerly pronounced tr[=a], as in French, and still so
pronounced to some extent in England.
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Traiteur
(gcide) | Traiteur \Trai`teur"\, n. [F.]
The keeper of an eating house, or restaurant; a restaurateur.
--Simmonds.
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Traitor
(gcide) | Traitor \Trai"tor\, n. [OE. traitour, OF. tra["i]tor,
tra["i]teur, F. tre[^i]tre, L. traditor, fr. tradere,
traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously,
to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date
time, and cf. Betray,Tradition, Traditor, Treason.]
1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country;
one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust,
delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or
place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or
body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also,
one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or
one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See
Treason.
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O passing traitor, perjured and unjust! --Shak.
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2. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a
betrayer. "This false traitor death." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]Traitor \Trai"tor\, a.
Traitorous. [R.] --Spenser. Pope.
[1913 Webster]Traitor \Trai"tor\, v. t.
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] "
But time, it traitors me." --Lithgow.
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