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our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

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

made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

See Allege. [Obs.]

A college or seminary where one is educated.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble." B. Jonson.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

t 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

uffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.