Alien

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.

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