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.
Alien(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
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.
Alien(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
Alien(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Alienability(n.) Capability of being alienated.
Alienable(a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Alienate(a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
Alienate(n.) A stranger; an alien.
Alienate(v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
Alienate(v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
Alienated(imp. & p. p.) of Alienate
Alienating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alienate
Alienation(n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
Alienation(n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
Alienation(n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
Alienation(n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Alienator(n.) One who alienates.
Aliene(v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Alienism(n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
Alienism(n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Words within aliennesses