Definition of alien

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Alien (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage..

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Half-tounue :: Half-tounue (n.) A jury, for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens..
Inalienableness :: Inalienableness (n.) The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.
Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time..
Alien :: Alien (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage..
Alienage :: Alienage (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Far :: Far (a.) Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated..
Devest :: Devest (v. i.) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate..
Alienate :: Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.
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..
Fleche :: Fleche (n.) A simple fieldwork, consisting of two faces forming a salient angle pointing outward and open at the gorge..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Alienated :: Alienated (imp. & p. p.) of Alienat.
Alien :: Alien (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores..
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..
Enclave :: Enclave (v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Disunion :: Disunion (n.) A breach of concord and its effect; alienation.
Package :: Package (n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens..
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..
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion..
Foreigner :: Foreigner (n.) A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger..
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