3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new. Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you. Shak.
4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." Shak. Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton.
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.
Note: 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.
Defn: Strangely. [Obs.]
Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. Shak.
STRANGE
Strange, v. t.