(1):
(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
(2):
(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
(3):
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
(4):
(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
(5):
(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; - followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
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