What is "straiter"

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.

a. (en-comparative of: strait)