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

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

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

One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.

Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or

On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." Beau. & Fl.

Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]

Wing-shaped; winglike.

Having wings; winged. [R.]

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

ement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

r; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.

Like-minded. [Obs.]

hat which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.