APage 140
- English Word Alhambraic Definition Alt. of Alhambresque
- English Word Alhambresque Definition Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
- English Word Alhenna Definition See Henna.
- English Word Alias Definition Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
- English Word Alias Definition At another time.
- English Word Alias Definition A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- English Word Alias Definition Another name; an assumed name.
- English Word Aliases Definition of Alias
- English Word Alibi Definition The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
- English Word Alibility Definition Quality of being alible.
- English Word Alible Definition Nutritive; nourishing.
- English Word Alicant Definition A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
- English Word Alidade Definition The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
- English Word Alien Definition Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
- English Word Alien Definition Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
- English Word Alien Definition 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.
- English Word Alien Definition One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
- English Word Alien Definition To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
- English Word Alienability Definition Capability of being alienated.
- English Word Alienable Definition Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
- English Word Alienage Definition The state or legal condition of being an alien.
- English Word Alienage Definition The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
- English Word Alienate Definition Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
- English Word Alienate Definition To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- English Word Alienate Definition To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
- English Word Alienate Definition A stranger; an alien.
- English Word Alienated Definition of Alienate
- English Word Alienating Definition of Alienate
- English Word Alienation Definition The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
- English Word Alienation Definition A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.