5. Reserved; distant in deportment. Shak.
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
Hawthorne. 6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
In favoring the cause.
Beau. & Fl. 7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange.
Shak. Strange is often used as an exclamation.
Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow
High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
Waller. Strange sail (Naut.),
an unknown vessel. — Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. Prov. v. 3. —
To make it strange. (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. Shak. (b) To
make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] Chaucer. — To make strange, To make one's self strange.
(a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the character of a stranger. Gen. xlii. 7.
Syn. — Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.
Strange
(Strange), adv. Strangely. [Obs.]
Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.
Shak. Strange
(Strange), v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]
Strange
(Strange), v. i.
1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]
2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Strangely
(Strange"ly), adv.
1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.]
Shak.
2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.
You all look strangely on me.
Shak.
I do in justice charge thee . . .
That thou commend it strangely to some place
Where chance may nurse
or end it.
Shak. 3. In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.
How strangely active are the arts of peace!
Dryden.
It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.
Law. Strangeness
(Strange"ness), n. The state or quality of being strange
Stranger
(Stran"ger) n. [OF. estrangier, F. étranger. See Strange.]
1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: —