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Strong. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

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: --

g 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.

d 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.

, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.

State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.

The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.

One who estranges.

To strangle. [Obs.]