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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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) A siege.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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