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The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.

efore 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 from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

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

ntaining an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

Loyal. Shak.

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard.

a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

Exclusive. [Obs.] Fabyan.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

uffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.

ombining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the throne of Hungary. -- Apostolic see, a see founded and governed by an apostle; specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in the Roman Catholic be…

h. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.

r limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.