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Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
See Lye.
n.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.
n.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
A fiction; a fable; an untruth.
n.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
Anything which misleads or disappoints.
n.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive; to say or do that which is intended to deceive another, when he a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
v. i.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin.
adj.
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To be situated; to occupy a certain place; as, Ireland lies west of England; the meadows lie along the river; the ship lay in port.
adj.
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To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of the waves; the paper does not lie smooth on the wall.
adj.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; -- with in.
adj.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
To lodge; to sleep.
adj.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
adj.
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To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
adj.
Lie Hear the Pronunciation!
The position or way in which anything lies; the lay, as of land or country.
n.
Abalienate To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate. v. t.
Abalienate To estrange; to withdraw. v. t.
Abalienate To cause alienation of [mind]. v. t.
Abalienation The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. n.
Alder-liefest Most beloved. a.
Alien Hear the Pronunciation!
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
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Alien Hear the Pronunciation!
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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Alien Hear the Pronunciation!
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.
n.
Alien Hear the Pronunciation!
One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
n.
Alien Hear the Pronunciation!
To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
v. t.
Alienability Hear the Pronunciation!
Capability of being alienated.
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Alienable Hear the Pronunciation!
Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
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Alienage Hear the Pronunciation!
The state or legal condition of being an alien.
n.
Alienage Hear the Pronunciation!
The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
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Alienate Hear the Pronunciation!
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
a.
Alienated of Alienate imp. & p. p.
Alienating of Alienate p. pr. & vb. n.
Alienate Hear the Pronunciation!
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
v. t.
Alienate Hear the Pronunciation!
To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
v. t.
Alienate Hear the Pronunciation!
A stranger; an alien.
n.
Alienation Hear the Pronunciation!
The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
n.
Alienation Hear the Pronunciation!
A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
n.
Alienation Hear the Pronunciation!
A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
n.
Alienation Hear the Pronunciation!
Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
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Alienator Hear the Pronunciation!
One who alienates.
n.
Aliene To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate. v. t.
Alienee One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor. n.
Alienism Hear the Pronunciation!
The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
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Alienism Hear the Pronunciation!
The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
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Alienist Hear the Pronunciation!
One who treats diseases of the mind.
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Alienor One who alienates or transfers property to another. n.