Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 42
Alfenide (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
Alferes (n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.
Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Alfilaria (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Alfione (n.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
Alfresco (adv. & a.) In the open-air.
Algae (n. pl. ) of Alga
Alga (n.) (Bot.) （常用複）水藻，海藻 A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water conferv[ae], etc. The algae are primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
Alga (n.) Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves [syn: {alga}, {algae}].
Algal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae.
Algaroba (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
Algaroba (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
Algarot (n.) Alt. of Algaroth
Algaroth (n.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
Algarovilla (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
Algate (adv.) Alt. of Algates
Algates (adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.
Algates (adv.) By any or means; at all events.
Algates (adv.) Notwithstanding; yet.
Algazel (n.) The true gazelle.
Algebra (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
Algebra (n.) A treatise on this science.
Algebraic (a.) Alt. of Algebraical
Algebraical (a.) Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.
Algebraically (adv.) By algebraic process.
Algebraist (n.) One versed in algebra.
Algebraize (v. t.) To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Algeria (n.) 阿爾及利亞人民民主共和國，簡稱阿爾及利亞，是非洲北部阿拉伯馬格里布的一個國家。阿爾及利亞的陸地面積居非洲國家之冠、地中海國家之冠和阿拉伯國家之冠，排全球第10位。國土瀕臨地中海，東鄰利比亞、突尼西亞，東南和南部分別與尼日、馬里和茅利塔尼亞接壤，西部和摩洛哥相連。
阿爾及利亞這個國名來自城市名、首都阿爾及爾，其阿拉伯語的含義是「群島」，指的是以前該市海灣處的四個島嶼，1525年之後這四個島逐漸和大陸連成一體了。[7]
阿爾及利亞於1962年從法國殖民統治下獲得獨立。
阿爾及利亞最主要的政黨是民族解放陣線，政權一直由他們掌握。但是許多阿爾及利亞人並不感到滿意，他們反對民族解放陣線的中央集權式的統治。1991年12月， 伊斯蘭拯救陣線出乎意料地在議會選舉第一輪投票中獲勝，隨後遭到了軍方干涉，並且延期第二輪選舉，以防止出現一個由極端主義者領導的強權政府。阿爾及利亞內戰隨之爆發，直至2002年結束。 Officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa since South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011. [11] Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the west by Morocco, to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory, Mauritania, and Mali, to the southeast by Niger, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes (counties). Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been President since 1999.
Ancient Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including ancient Numidians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasids, Idrisid, Aghlabid, Rustamid, Fatimids, Zirid, Hammadids, Almoravids, Almohads, Spaniards, Ottomans and the French colonial empire. Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Algeria.
Algeria is a regional and middle power. The North African country supplies large amounts of natural gas to Europe, and energy exports are the backbone of the economy. According to OPEC Algeria has the 16th largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest in Africa, while it has the 9th largest reserves of natural gas. Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company in Africa. Algeria has one of the largest militaries in Africa and the largest defence budget on the continent; most of Algeria's weapons are imported from Russia, with whom they are a close ally. [12] [13] Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC, the United Nations and is a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union.
Algerian (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.
Algerian (n.) A native of Algeria.
Algerine (a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.
Algerine (n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.
Algid (a.) Cold; chilly.
Algidity (n.) Chilliness; coldness
Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Algidness (n.) Algidity.
Algific (a.) Producing cold.
Algoid (a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
Algol (n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Algological (a.) Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
Algologist (n.) One learned about algae; a student of algology.
Algology (n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
Algonquin (n.) Alt. of Algonkin
Algonkin (n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
Algor (n.) Cold; chilliness.
Algorism (n.) Alt. of Algorithm
Algorithm (n.) 【數】互除法；演算法；規則系統 <algorithm, programming> A detailed sequence of actions to perform to accomplish some task. Named after the Iranian, Islamic mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.
Technically, an algorithm must reach a result after a finite number of steps, thus ruling out brute force search methods for certain problems, though some might claim that brute force search was also a valid (generic) algorithm. The term is also used loosely for any sequence of actions (which may or may not terminate).
{Paul E. Black's Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems (http://nist.gov/dads/)}.
Algorithm (n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures.
Algorithm (n.) The Arabic system of numeration.
Syn: Decimal system
Algorithm (n.) The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
Algorithm (n.) A precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem; a set of procedures guaranteed to find the solution to a problem.
Syn: Algorithmic rule, algorithmic program
Algorithm (n.) A precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem [syn: {algorithm}, {algorithmic rule}, {algorithmic program}].
Algorithmic (a.) 算法的；規則系統的；演算的 Of or pertaining to an algorithm. {recursive}.
Algorithmic (a.) Definitively solvable by a finite number of steps; -- said of mathematical or logical problems. Contrasted with {heuristic}.
Algorithmic (a.) Of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm [ant: {heuristic}].
Algous (a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
Alguazil (n.) An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.
Algum (n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
Alhambra (n.) 阿爾漢布拉宮殿；阿爾漢布若（美國加利福尼亞州西南部城市）；阿罕布拉宮（中古時代西班牙首府格拉那達附近摩爾族諸王之宮殿） The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Alhambra (n.) A fortified Moorish palace built near Granada by Muslim kings in the Middle Ages.
Alhambra (n.), CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 85804
Housing Units (2000): 30069
Land area (2000): 7.622063 sq. miles (19.741052 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.622063 sq. miles (19.741052 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00884
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.081859 N, 118.135052 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91801 91803
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alhambra, CA
Alhambra
Alhambra (n.), IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 630
Husing Units (2000): 216
Land area (2000): 0.755078 sq. miles (1.955644 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006247 sq. miles (0.016180 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.761325 sq. miles (1.971824 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00737
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.888614 N, 89.732616 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62001
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alhambra, IL
Alhambra
Alhambraic (a.) Alt. of Alhambresque
Alhambresque (a.) 阿漢布拉宮式的；宮殿式（尤指其裝飾豪華）的 Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
Alhenna (n.) See Henna.
Alias (adv.) 別名，化名 Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
Alias (adv.) At another time.
Aliases (n. pl. ) of Alias
Alias (n.) 別名，化名 A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
Alias (n.) Another name; an assumed name.
Alias (adv.) As known or named at another time or place; "Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette" [syn: {alias}, {a.k.a.}, {also known as}].
Alias (n.) A name that has been assumed temporarily [syn: {alias}, {assumed name}, {false name}].
Alibi (n.) 不在場証明辯解，托辭 The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Alibi (n.) (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
Alibi (n.) A defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable" [syn: {excuse}, {alibi}, {exculpation}, {self-justification}].
Alibi (v.) Exonerate by means of an alibi.
Alibility (n.) Quality of being alible.
Alible (a.) Nutritive; nourishing.
Alicant (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
Alidade (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
Alien (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
An alien sound of melancholy. -- Wordsworth.
Alien enemy (Law), One who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. -- Abbott.
Alien (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.
Alien (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. -- Ephes. ii. 12.
Alien (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." --Sir M. Hale.
The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. -- Clarendon.
Alien (a.) Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn: alien, foreign].
Alien (a.) Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic].
Alien (n.) A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen].
Alien (n.) Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant: acquaintance, friend].
Alien (n.) A form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien].
Alien (v.) Transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate].
Alien (v.) Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect].
Alien, () A foreigner, or person born in another country, and therefore not entitled to the rights and privileges of the country where he resides. Among the Hebrews there were two classes of aliens.
(1.) Those who were strangers generally, and who owned no landed property.
(2.) Strangers dwelling in another country without being naturalized (Lev. 22:10; Ps. 39:12).
Both of these classes were to enjoy, under certain conditions, the same rights as other citizens (Lev. 19:33, 34; Deut. 10:19). They might be naturalized and permitted to enter into the congregation of the Lord by submitting to circumcision and abandoning idolatry (Deut. 23:3-8).
This term is used (Eph. 2:12) to denote persons who have no interest in Christ.
Alien, () persons. One born out of the jurisdiction of the United States, who has not since been naturalized under their constitution and laws. To this there are some exceptions, as this children of the ministers of the United States in foreign courts. See Citizen, Inhabitant.
Alien, () Aliens are subject to disabilities, have rights, and are bound to perform duties, which will be briefly considered. 1. Disabilities. An alien cannot in general acquire title to real estate by the descent, or by other mere operation of law; and if he purchase land, he may be divested of the fee, upon an inquest of office found. To this general rule there are statutory exceptions in some of the states; in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, New Jersey, Rev. Laws, 604, and Michigan, Rev. St. 266, s. 26, the disability has been removed; in North Carolina, (but see Mart. R. 48; 3 Dev. R. 138; 2 Hayw. 104, 108; 3 Murph. 194; 4 Dev. 247; Vermont and Virginia, by constitutional provision; and in Alabama, 3 Stew R. 60; Connecticut, act of 1824, Stat. tit. Foreigners, 251; Indiana, Rev. Code, a. 3, act of January 25, 1842; Illinois, Kentucky, 1 Litt. 399; 6 Mont. 266 Maine, Rev. St,. tit. 7, c. 93, s. 5 Maryland, act of 1825, ch. 66; 2 Wheat. 259; and Missouri, Rev. Code, 1825, p. 66, by statutory provision it is partly so.
Alien, () An alien, even after being naturalized, is ineligible to the office of president of the United States; and in some states, as in New York, to that of governor; he cannot be a member of congress, till the expiration of seven years after his naturalization. An alien can exercise no political rights whatever; he cannot therefore vote at any political election, fill any office, or serve as a juror. 6 John. R. 332.
Alien, () An alien has a right to acquire personal estate, make and enforce contracts in relation to the same - he is protected from injuries, and wrongs, to his person and property, his relative rights and character; he may sue and be sued.
Alien, () He owes a temporary local allegiance, and his property is liable to taxation. Aliens are either alien friends or alien enemies. It is only alien friends who have the rights above enumerated; alien enemies are incapable, during the existence of war to sue, and may be ordered out of the country. See generally, 2 Kent. Com. 43 to 63; 1 Vin. Ab. 157; 13 Vin. ab. 414; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Saund. 8, n.2; Wheat. Dig. h.t.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Alien, (n.) An American sovereign in his probationary state.
Alienability (n.) Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." -- Burke.
Alienable (a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Alienable (a.) Transferable to another owner [ant: inalienable, unalienable].
Alienage (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization. -- Kent. Wharton.
Estates forfeitable on account of alienage. -- Story.
Alienage (n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another. -- Brougham.
Alienage (n.) The quality of being alien [syn: alienage, alienism].
Alienate (a.) 疏遠的 Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
O alienate from God. -- Milton.
Alienated (imp. & p. p.) of Alienate
Alienating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alienate
Alienate (v. t.) 使疏遠；離間 [（+from）]；【律】轉讓，讓渡（財產等）；使轉移，使轉向 To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
Alienate (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. -- Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. -- I. Taylor.
Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Alienate (v.) Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: {estrange}, {alienate}, {alien}, {disaffect}].
Alienate (v.) Transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: {alien}, {alienate}].
Alienate (v.) Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees".
Alienate, () aliene, alien. This is a generic term applicable to the various methods of transferring property from one person to another. Lord Coke, says,
(1 Inst. 118 b,) alien cometh of the verb alienate, that is, alienum facere vel ex nostro dominio in alienum trawferre sive rem aliquam in dominium alterius transferre. These methods vary, according to the nature of the property to be conveyed and the particular objects the conveyance is designed to accomplish. It has been held, that under a prohibition to alienate, long leases are comprehended. 2 Dow's Rep. 210.
Alienate (v.) [ T ] (Lose support) 離間；使背離；使不友好 To cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you.
// All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.
Alienate (v.) [ T ] (Make unwelcome) 使格格不入；使疏遠 To make someone feel that they are different and not part of a group.
// Disagreements can alienate teenagers from their families.
Alienated (a.) 疏遠的；感到孤獨的，不合群的；alienate的動詞過去式、過去分詞 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless alienated people.
Syn: anomic, disoriented
Alienated (a.) Having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
Syn: estranged
Alienated (a.) Socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" [syn: alienated, anomic, disoriented].
Alienated (a.) Caused to be unloved [syn : alienated, estranged].
Alienation (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
Alienation (n.) (Law) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
Alienation (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
The alienation of his heart from the king. -- Bacon.
Alienation (n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; delirium; frenzy; dementia; monomania. See Insanity.
Alienation (n.) The feeling of being alienated from other people [syn: alienation, disaffection, estrangement].
Alienation (n.) Separation resulting from hostility [syn: alienation, estrangement].
Alienation (n.) (Law) The voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another; "the power of alienation is an essential ingredient of ownership".
Alienation (n.) The action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other students".
Alienation, () med. jur. The term alienation or mental alienation is a generic expression to express the different kinds of aberrations of the human understanding. Dict. des Science Med. h.t.; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 535.
Alienation, () estates. Alienation is an act whereby one man transfers the property and possession of lands, tenements, or other things, to another. It is commonly applied to lands or tenements, as to alien (that is, to convey) land in fee, in mortmain. Termes de la ley. See Co. Litt. 118 b; Cruise Dig. tit. 32, c. 1, Sec. 1-8.
Alienation, () Alienations may be made by deed; by matter of record; and by devise.
Alienation, () Alienations by deed may be made by original or primary conveyances, which are those by means of which the benefit or estate is created or first arises; by derivative or secondary conveyances, by which the benefit or estate originally created, is enlarged, restrained, transferred, or extinguished. These are conveyances by the common law. To these may be added some conveyances which derive their force and operation from the statute of uses. The original conveyances are the following: 1. Feoffment; 2. Gift; 3. Grant; 4. Lease; 6. Exchange; 6. Partition. The derivative are, 7. Release; 8. Confirmation; 9. Surrender; 10. Assignment; 11. Defeasance. Those deriving their force from the statute of uses, are, 12. Covenants to stand seised to uses; 13. Bargains and sales; 14. Lease and release; 15. Deeds to lend or declare the uses of other more direct conveyances; 16. Deeds of revocation of uses. 2 Bl. Com. ch. 20. Vide Conveyance; Deed. Alienations by matter of record may be, 1. By private acts of the legislature; 2. By grants, as by patents of lands; 3. By fines; 4. By common recovery. Alienations may also be made by devise (q.v.)
Alienator (n.) One who alienates.
Alienator (n.) An unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile.
Aliene (v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Alienee. () One to whom an alienation is made.
Alienee (n.) (Law) 【律】受讓人 One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
It the alienee enters and keeps possession. -- Blackstone.
Alienee (n.) Someone to whom the title of property is transferred [syn: alienee, grantee].
Alienism (n.) 外僑的身分；【醫】精神病學；精神錯亂 The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. -- Kent.
Alienism (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Alienism (n.) An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness.
Alienism (n.) The quality of being alien [syn: alienage, alienism].
Alienist (n.) 精神病醫生；精神病學家 One who treats diseases of the mind. -- Ed. Rev.
Alienist (n.) A psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness.
Alienor (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another. --Blackstone. Aliethmoid
Alienor (n.) Someone from whom the title of property is transferred.
Aliethmoid (a.) Alt. of Aliethmoidal
Aliethmoidal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Alife (adv.) On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." -- Beau. & Fl.
Alife () Artificial life
Aliferous (a.) Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]
Aliform (a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.
Aligerous (a.) Having wings; winged. [R.]
Alighted (imp. & p. p.) of Alight
Alit () of Alight
Alighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alight
Alight (v. i.) (Alighted, alit, alighted, alit, alighting) （從車輛、馬背等）下來 [（+from）]；（鳥等）飛落；（雪花等）飄落[（+on）] To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.