Of persons: (a) foreign; (b) barbarian; (c) unknown, unfamiliar; -- also used of a dog; (d) ignorant; ~ unto, unfamiliar with; (e) from elsewhere, alien, not belonging to the place where found; not belonging to a religion, guild, household, etc.; coming from outside a town, not having citizenship in a town; wie ~, an outsider; (f) not belonging to a family, unrelated; (g) different from previously known or mentioned; other; (h) Bibl. ~ woman, an adulteress.

(a) Of a country, region, location, or geographical feature: foreign; unfamiliar, unknown, remote; (b) of a thing, an action, event, etc.: unusual, unfamiliar; extraordinary, remarkable, outlandish; ~ sterre, an unfamiliar star; a star not represented in the rete of an astrolabe; (c) of language, religion, etc.: foreign, alien; (d) of food, attire, etc.: elaborate, fancy, curious, ingeniously wrought; of language: recondite, obscure; (e) different, other; ~ crounes, various crowns; ~ degre, a degree different from that of a star's longitude; ~ opinioun, one's individual plan; (f) great, intense, extreme; also, large in amount [a few quots. in (f) may belong to strong adj.].

(a) Aloof, reserved, distant; estranged, unfriendly, hostile; with inf.: unwilling (to do sth.); also, of thoughts: ?oppressive; ?secret, close; ~ fare, overformal behavior; (b) yeven ~, refl. to be reluctant or unresponsive; (c) ~ from, alien to, far from, estranged from, excluded from; (d) maken ~, to remove (sth.), put aside; (e) not intrinsic, not one's own; of others; (f) external, extraneous, not proper to a thing; of heat, moisture, etc.: unnatural, accidental; ~ thing, foreign body or substance; (g) difficult; maken (hit) ~, to make difficulties; be reluctant (to do sth.).

As noun: (a) a foreigner, an alien; -- also coll.; (b) an unknown or unfamiliar person, a stranger; -- also coll.; (c) an outsider; not a citizen of a town; a traveler, sojourner; someone not belonging to the place where found [in last quot. straunge could also be construed as adv.]; -- also coll.; (d) a person not related by blood; (e) coll. enemies; (f) Bibl. an adulteress; (g) a foreign land; (h) recondite or obscure language; (i) a foreign substance.

(a) As surname; (b) ?as place name.