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To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

hese cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed.…

f the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.

Indifferent or neutral. Jer. Taylor.

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

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.

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.

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him…