Definition of lien

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Lien (n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.

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Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
Disaffection :: Disaffection (n.) State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike..
Mortmain :: Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate..
Transiliency :: Transiliency (n.) A leap across or from one thing to another.
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..
Supersalt :: Supersalient (a.) Leaping upon.
Inherent :: Inherent (a.) Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection..
Rebound :: Rebound (n.) The act of rebounding; resilience.
Alienator :: Alienator (n.) One who alienates.
Lienculus :: Lienculus (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
Ebullience :: Ebullience (n.) Alt. of Ebullienc.
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor..
Julienne :: "Julienne (n.) A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc..
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..
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Splendent :: Splenculus (n.) A lienculus.
Lenitive :: Lenitive (a.) Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient..
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion..
Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.
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