Stramazoun
(Stram"a*zoun) n. [F. estramaçon, It. stramazzone.] A direct descending blow
with the edge of a sword. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Stramineous
(Stra*min"e*ous) a. [L. stramineus, fr. stramen straw, fr. sternere, stratum, to spread
out, to strew.]
1. Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson.
2. Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored. Burton.
Stramonium
(Stra*mo"ni*um) n. [NL.; Cf. F. stramoine.] (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed.
See Datura, and Jamestown weed.
Stramony
(Stram"o*ny) n. (Bot.) Stramonium.
Strand
(Strand) n. [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. strähne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a
rope.] One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Strand
(Strand), v. t. To break a strand of
Strand
(Strand), n. [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. strönd.] 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.] To drive on a strand; hence,
to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
Strand
(Strand) v. i. To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Strang
(Strang) a. [See Strong.] Strong. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.
Strange
(Strange) a. [Compar. Stranger ; superl. Strangest ] [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. 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.
