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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.

r the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

e aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

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 act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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.

ight, 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.

s as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named.

An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument. It was not without some reference to it that I perused many a brief. Sir J. Stephen.

Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.

The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.

To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent.

One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister. Good counselors lack no clients. Shak.

An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause. [Obs.] Burrill.