As nouns the difference between terms and alew
is that terms is while alew is (obsolete|rare) a cry of despair.
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alew
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(obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.6:
*:Yet did she not lament with loude alew , / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.