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That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

In a salient manner.

The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Leaping upon. [Obs.]

Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.

See Virgalieu.

A partial alienation of reason. "Occasional aberrations of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edges in moldings, and to the raised edges which separate the flutings in a Doric column. P. Cyc. Arris fillet, a triangular piece of wood used to raise the slates of a roof against a chimn…

, from one lord to another. This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

ning), the portion of a vein in which there is no ore. -- Dead hand, a hand that can not alienate, as of a person civilly dead. "Serfs held in dead hand." Morley. See Mortmain. -- Dead head (Naut.), a rough block of wood used as an anchor buoy. -- Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, e…

Aberration of mind; delirium. J. Motley. Deliration or alienation of the understanding. Mede.

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.