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

Siege :: Siege (n.) A workman's bench.

Assiege :: Assiege (v. t.) To besiege.

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

Siege :: Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers..

Siege :: Siege (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

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..

Sally :: Sally (v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie..

Sortie :: Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally..

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

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..

Succor :: Succor (v. t.) To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city..

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

Odyssey :: Odyssey (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy..

Besiegement :: Besiegement (n.) The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged..

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

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..

Coupure :: Coupure (n.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

Ponvolant :: Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge..

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