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Quotation dates: 1703, 1768-1924
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STRANG, adj., adv. Sc. (and n. Eng.) form of Eng. strong, now somewhat obsol. or liter. (Ork., Bnff., em.Sc., Lnk., s.Sc. 1971). Compar. stranger. Comb. strang-nieved, with strong hands or fists.Sc. 1703 G. Turnbull Diary (S.H.S.) 428:
A strang witherin and universall decay.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 30:
For they great dacker made an' tulzi'd strang.Edb. 1773 Fergusson Poems (S.T.S.) II. 137:
They'd rax fell strang upo' the simplest fare.Ayr. 1791 Burns Lament of Mary iii.:
But I, the Queen o' a' Scotland, Maun lie in prison strang.Mry. 1830 T. D. Lauder Moray Floods 138:
Being asked if he had prayed, "Aye, Sir, lang and strang."Rxb. 1847 H. S. Riddell Poems 352:
I've kenned ye gang, though storms blew strang.Dmf. 1877 R. W. Thom Poems (1883) 10:
The evil privilege o' the strang.e.Lth. 1886 J. P. Reid Facts & Fancies 26:
The eerie win' grows snell an' stranger.Lnk. 1919 G. Rae Clyde and Tweed 81:
He's gane where the healin' burns rin strang.Ags. 1921 V. Jacob Bonnie Joann 26:
To seek some reid-haired queyn, Bauld-he'rted, strang-nieved.Sc. 1924 M. Angus Tinker's Road 33:
Ye streams sae wondrous strang.
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