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#NAME? :: -ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer..

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

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..

Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Division :: Division (n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

Strange :: Strange (v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.

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

Disunite :: Disunite (v. t.) To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.

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..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

Redan :: Redan (n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.

Saliaunce :: Saliaunce (a.) Salience; onslaught.

Alienism :: Alienism (n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

Devest :: Devest (v. t.) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate..

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

Naturalization :: Naturalization (n.) The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized..

Unalienable :: Unalienable (a.) Inalienable; as, unalienable rights..

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

Alienation :: Alienation (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated..

Forinsecal :: Forinsecal (a.) Foreign; alien.

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