Defn: The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake;
rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds.
(Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore.
— Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of
Plover.
— Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.
STRAND
Strand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.]
Defn: To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
STRAND
Strand, v. i.
Defn: To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
STRANG
Strang, a. Etym: [See Strong.]
Defn: Strong. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
STRANGE Strange, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.] Etym: [OE. estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]
1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands."
Chaucer.
One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.
2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. Sir J. Davies.