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Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

See Henna.

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.

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.

Quality of being alible.

Nutritive; nourishing.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

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 Whewell.

e same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

One who alienates.

To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.