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

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

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..

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..

Battering Train :: Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations.

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

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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..

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

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..

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

Muscule :: Muscule (n.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

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

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

Sap :: Sap (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc..

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise, as a siege..

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

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

Boyau :: Boyau (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc..

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

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