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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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184 words match “LIEN”

INALIENABLY adv.
In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
IRRESILIENT a.
Not resilient; not recoiling or rebounding; inelastic.
JULIENNE n.
A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.
MOLLIENT a.
Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.
MOLLIENTLY adv.
Assuagingly.
NONALIENATION n.
Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated.
PROSILIENCY n.
The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief." Coleridge.
REMOLLIENT a.
Mollifying; softening. [R.]
RESILIENCE; RESILIENCY n. 2 definitions
The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
RESILIENT a.
Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.
SALIENCE n. 2 definitions
That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
SALIENCY n.
Quality of being salient; hence, vigor. "A fatal lack of poetic saliency." J. Morley.
SALIENT a. 6 definitions
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.
SALIENTLY adv.
In a salient manner.
SICILIENNE n.
A kind of rich poplin.
SUPERSALIENCY n.
The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
SUPERSALIENT a.
Leaping upon. [Obs.]
TRANSILIENCE; TRANSILIENCY n.
A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised transiliency." Glanvill.
UNALIENABLE a.
Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.
VENDOR'S LIEN n.
An implied lien (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.
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