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Siege :: Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne..

Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..

Siege :: Siege (n.) Hence, place or situation; seat..

Resiege :: Resiege (v. t.) To seat again; to reinstate.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town..

Besieging :: Besieging (a.) That besieges; laying siege to.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

Fall :: Fall (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

Besieged :: Besieged (imp. & p. p.) of Besieg.

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about..

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

Siege :: Siege (n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

Sow :: Sow (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like..

Circumvallation :: Circumvallation (n.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without..

Siegework :: Siegework (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches..

Leaguer :: Leaguer (n.) A siege or beleaguering.

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