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Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

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

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) A siege.

Beleaguer :: Beleaguer (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

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..

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..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Obsession :: Obsession (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.

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