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I saw sweet beauty in her face; 
Such as the daughter of Agenor had, 
That made great Jove to humble him to her hand. 
When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand. 
Shakspeare. 
Some wretch’d lines from this neglected hand, 
May find my hero on the foreign strand. 
Warm’d with new fires. Prior. 
A twist of a rope. (Derivation unknown.) 
To STRAND, v. a. To drive or force upon the shallows. 
Tarchon’s alone was lost, and stranded stood, 
Stuck on a bank, and beaten by the flood. Dryden. 
Some from the stranded vessel force their way. 
Fearful of fate they meet it in the sea; 
Some who escape the fury of the wave. 
Sicken on earth, and sink into a grave. Prior. 
STRAND, North, a strait of the North sea, between the 
island of Benbecula and North Uist. 
STRAND, South, a strait of the sea, between the island 
of Benbecula and South Uist. 
STRANG, adj. [pcpang, Sax.] Strong: our northern 
word. 
STRANGE, adj. [estrange, Fr. extranens, Lat.] Foreign; 
of another country.—The natural subjects of the state should 
bear a sufficient proportion to the strange subjects that they 
govern. Bacon. —Not domestic. 
As the man loves least at home to be. 
That hath a sluttish house, haunted with sprites; 
So she, impatient her own faults to see. 
Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. Davies. 
Wonderful; causing wonder. 
Strange to relate, from young lulus’ head 
A lambent flame arose, which gently spread 
Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Dryden. 
Odd; irregular; not according to the common way. 
Desire my man’s abode, where I did leave him: 
He's strange and peevish. Shakspeare. 
Unknown; 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. Shakspeare. —Remote. 
She makes it strange, but she would be best pleas’d 
To be so anger’d with another letter. Shakspeare. 
Uncommonly good or bad.—This made David to admire 
the law of God at that strange rate, and to advance the 
knowledge of it above all other knowledge. Tillotson. — 
Unacquainted.—They were now, like sand without lime, ill 
bound together, at a gaze, looking strange one upon another, 
not knowing who was faithful. Bacon. 
STRANGE, interj. An expression of wonder.— Strange! 
that fatherly authority should be the only original of govern¬ 
ment, and yet all mankind not know it. Locke. 
To STRANGE, v. n. To be estranged. 
My wits chaungen, 
And all lusts for me straungen. Gower. 
To wonder; to be astonished.—Were all the assertions of 
Aristotle such as theology pronounceth impieties, which we 
strange not at from one, of whom a father saith, Nec Deum 
coluit, nec curavit. Glanville. 
To STRANGE, v. a. [estranger, old Fr.] To alienate; 
to estrange. —Stranging them from their God. Woodroephe. 
STRANGE (Sir Robert), an eminent English engraver, 
was born in one of the Orkney Islands, in 1721, and placed 
at a proper age with a painter in Edinburgh. When the 
Pretender landed in Scotland, he entered into the rebel army, 
and after the battle of Culloden, he concealed himself for 
some time in the Highlands. Returning to Edinburgh, he 
passed over to France, and settled at Rouen, where he ac¬ 
quired reputation by the productions of his pencil. At Paris, 
whither he next removed, he placed himself under the instruc¬ 
tion ofLe Bas, who excelled in engraving with what is called 
among artists the “ dry needle.” In 1751 he settled in Lon¬ 
don, and acquired the reputation of being the father of his¬ 
torical engraving in this country. He visited Italy in 1760, 
and by his admirable drawings of the capital pictures in that 
city, recommended himself to such a degree, that he was 
admitted a member of all the principal Italian academies. 
His early political errors having been forgotten, he was 
patronized at the English court, and in 1787 received the 
honour of knighthood. After a course of the most indefa¬ 
tigable labour in the practice of his art, he died in 1792. 
Besides a number of other works, he left fifty capital plates 
from pictures of the most celebrated masters of the Italian 
schools. Selecting, as he was accustomed to do, eighty 
copies of the best impressions of every plate which he en¬ 
graved, he collected them into as many volumes, and pre¬ 
fixed to each two plates of himself, one an etching, the other 
a finished proof, from a drawing by I. Bapt. Greuse; toge¬ 
ther with an introduction on the progress of engraving, and 
critical remarks on the pictures from which the engravings 
were taken. 
STRANGEA, a secondary ridge of mountains which 
branches off from the Haemus chain on the south, and ex¬ 
tends along the Black sea to the Thracian Bosphorus. An 
inferior branch called Mount Tekis, becomes detached from 
this, and stretches partly in a south-west direction to the 
point of the Chersonesus, partly in a circular form, round 
the gulf of Enos. 
STRA'NGELY, adv. With some relation to foreigners. 
As by strange fortune 
It came to us, I do in justice charge thee 
That thou commend it strangely to some place. 
Where chance may nurse or end it. Shakspeare. 
Wonderfully ; in a way to cause wonder, but commonly- 
with a degree of dislike. 
My former speeches have but hit your thoughts, 
Which can interpret farther: only, I say, 
Things have been strangely borne. Shakspeare. 
STRA'NGENESS, 5. Foreigness; the state of belonging 
to another country.—If I will obey the Gospel, no distance 
of place, no strangeness of country, can make any man a 
stranger to me. Sprat. —Uncommunicativeness; distance of 
behaviour.—Ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall 
vent to my lady. Shakspeare. —Remoteness from common 
manners or notions; uncouthness. 
Men worthier than himself 
Here tend the savage strangeness be puts on; 
And undergo, in an observing kind. 
His humourous predominance. Shakspeare. 
Mutual dislike.—In this peace there was an article that no 
Eglishman should enter into Scotland, and no Scottishman 
into England, without letters commendatory: this might 
seem a means to continue a strangeness between the nations; 
but it was done to lock in the borderers. Bacon. —Wonder¬ 
fulness; power of raising wonder.—This raised greater 
tumults and boilings in the hearts of men, than the strange¬ 
ness and seeming unreasonableness of all the former articles. 
South. 
STRA'NGER, s. [ estranger, Fr.] A foreigner; one of 
another country. 
I am a most poor woman, and a stranger. 
Born out of your dominions; having here 
No judge indifferent. Shakspeare. 
One unknown. 
Thus the majestic mother of mankind. 
To her own charms most amiably blind, 
On the green margin innocently stood. 
And gaz’d indulgent on the crystal flood; 
Survey’d the stranger in the painted wave, 
And smiling prais’d the beauties which she gave. Young. 
A guest; one not a domestic. 
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