·noun One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
II. Alien ·vt To Alienate; to Estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
III. Alien ·adj Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
IV. Alien ·adj Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous;
— followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
V. Alien ·noun 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.