STRAIT, adj. A relative term, denoting the extent of space in certain circumstances, and opposed to wide. See WIDE.
4. The term strait is likewise in a peculiar manner used to denote the smallness of the internal diameter of those bodies which are fitted to receive or contain others, as any kind of bag, tube, body clothes, mortises, and others of the same kind; and in all these cases this term may be employed to denote the smallness of their lesser diameter, and never the term narrow. But in certain circumstances the word tight may be substituted for it. See TIGHT.
5. Straight, in a figurative sense, denotes any sort of confinement of sentiment or disposition.