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Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Inalienable :: Inalienable (a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright..

Disunion :: Disunion (n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.

Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.

Denaturalize :: Denaturalize (v. t.) To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

Inalienability :: Inalienability (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable.

Disnaturalize :: Disnaturalize (v. t.) To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

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..

Exclave :: Exclave (n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.

Salliance :: Salliance (n.) Salience.

Sacrilege :: Sacrilege (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..

Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.

Guerite :: Guerite (n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions..

Saliant :: Saliant (a.) Same as Salient.

Heterarchy :: Heterarchy (n.) The government of an alien.

Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To estrange; to withdraw.

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

Alienee :: Alienee (n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.

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