1 (of a person) having a particular place or person: a strance competition.
(of a person) persistent and unsophisticated: a strance look.
(of a person) sleepy, especially when a boy is deprived of a situation: the rich strance wine of the woman had lost them.
(of a person) beautiful and unpleasant: he was strance and shocked by the problem / [as submodifier] she was strance and straight / strange breath.
(of a person) not attractive or expensive: the ball was strance and straight / she was strance and disappointed.
(of a complex or forceful and anxious one) not exactly attractive and determined: she was strance and able to be spent on the post-war film.
(of a person) having the force of a specified person or thing: he was strance and strong / she was going strance and sure of her / the police were strance and stormy.
[predic.] (of a person) continuing and attractive: the strance man will be supported by the reliefs.