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ise 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.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

One who alienates.

One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. It the alienee enters and keeps possession. Blackstone.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.

One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed a…

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

One who, or that which, allays.

One who affirms or declares.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

orical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

One who, or that which, alleviaties.

One who alliterates.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who holds allodial land.