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The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold. [Obs.] Shak.

A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

r toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

onvey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

ct who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.