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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.

As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.] Shak.

The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).

One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: --

the throat, as with the hand or a rope. Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe.

In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

Capable of being strangled. [R.] Chesterfield.

One who, or that which, strangles. "The very strangler of their amity." Shak.

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

Strangulated.

with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

Of or pertaining to strangury. Cheyne.

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

Superior to the angels in nature or rank. [R.] Milman.

The surangular bone.

Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. [Cant & Obs.] Arbuthnot.

Infrangible. [Obs.] "Impassible and unfrangible." Jer. Taylor.

One of the Northmen who founded a dynasty in Russia in the 9th century; also, one of the Northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at Constantinople.

Same as Wariangle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]