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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Alien :: Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion..
Point :: Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc..
Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
Alienage :: Alienage (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Exsiliency :: Exsiliency (n.) A leaping out.
Abalienation :: Abalienation (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.
Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion..
Alienator :: Alienator (n.) One who alienates.
Abalienate :: Abalienate (v. t.) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Alienability :: Alienability (n.) Capability of being alienated.
Lieno-intestinal :: Lieno-intestinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog..
Estrangement :: Estrangement (n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation..
Consilience :: Consilience (n.) Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate..
Mortmain :: Mortmain (n.) Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate..
Ebullience :: Ebullience (n.) Alt. of Ebullienc.
Vergalien :: Vergalien (n.) Alt. of Vergalo.
Saliency :: Saliency (n.) Quality of being salient; hence, vigor..
Prosiliency :: Prosiliency (n.) The act of leaping forth or forward; projection.
Lientery :: Lientery (n.) A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change..
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