Emily Dickinson Lexicon

alien, adj. [OFr < L. aliēn-us, belonging to another person or place.] (webplay: foreign, love, natural, paid).

Strange; unnatural; distant; withdrawn; aloof; detached; unfamiliar; enigmatic; belonging to another place; residing in a different dimension or domain; [fig.] deceased; in a coma; dead to this world; departed from mortal life.