Sentence:  But by the tracing procedure , he could , in a <WSD>strange</WSD> obviously kinesthetic manner , find the unseen form ; could piece , as it were , the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird