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"An unlawful occupier or possessor of land."
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"word": "alean"
},
{
"word": "alyen"
},
{
"word": "aliand"
},
{
"word": "aliaund"
},
{
"word": "aliant"
},
{
"word": "alyant"
}
],
"word": "alien"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Middle English verbs",
"enm:Family",
"enm:Law",
"enm:People",
"enm:Property law",
"enm:Religion"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "alier"
},
"expansion": "Old French alier",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old French alier.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "alien",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "allien"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of allien"
],
"links": [
[
"allien",
"allien#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "alien"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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