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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Alien

Āl'ien, a.

adjective

(āl'yen), a. [Lat. alienus, from alius, another; properly, therefore, belonging to another.]

  1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects; alien enemies; alien property.
  2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; as, principles alien from our religion. “An alien sound of melancholy.” Wordsworth.

Al'ien, n.

noun

(āl'yen), n. 1. A foreigner; one born in, or belonging to, another country; a foreign-born resident of a country, in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. In American Law, one born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, and not naturalized. In English Law, one born out of the allegiance of the king. Kent. Wharton. Burrill. 2. A stranger. [Rare.] Who can not have been altogether an alien from the researches of your lordship into the history of the two late reigns. Landor.