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Counter-salient :: Counter-salient (a.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

Inalienableness :: Inalienableness (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..

Disaffect :: Disaffect (v. t.) To lack affection for; to be alienated from, or indisposed toward; to dislike..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin..

Fleche :: Fleche (n.) A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge..

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..

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

Disincline :: Disincline (v. t.) To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

Metic :: Metic (n.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen..

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

Alienation :: Alienation (n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another..

Amortization :: Amortization (n.) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain..

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

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

Estrangement :: Estrangement (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..

Vergalien :: Vergalien (n.) Alt. of Vergalo.

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

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