Definition of alien

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Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion..

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Enclave :: Enclave (v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Attornment :: Attornment (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord..
Salliance :: Salliance (n.) Salience.
Alienism :: Alienism (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Alienor :: Alienor (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more..
Irreconcile :: Irreconcile (v. t.) To prevent from being reconciled; to alienate or disaffect.
Mortmain :: Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate..
Alienability :: Alienability (n.) Capability of being alienated.
Half-tounue :: Half-tounue (n.) A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens..
Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..
Alienation :: Alienation (n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind..
Alienated :: Alienated (imp. & p. p.) of Alienat.
Arris :: Arris (n.) The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column..
Forinsecal :: Forinsecal (a.) Foreign; alien.
Disposal :: Disposal (n.) Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property..
Metic :: Metic (n.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen..
Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.
Devest :: Devest (v. i.) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate..
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
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