One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham.

So she, impatient her own faults to see,
Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. Sir J. Davies.

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.

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive
Strange alteration in me. Milton.

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
In favoring the cause. Beau. *** Fl.

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.

Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. Shak.