Definition of approach

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

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Forefend :: Forefend (v. t.) To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
Hoa :: Hoa (interj.) Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..
Approximate :: Approximate (v. i.) To draw; to approach.
Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..
Converge :: Converge (v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
Admission :: Admission (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
Shy :: Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Come :: Come (n.) To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go..
Maturescent :: Maturescent (a.) Approaching maturity.
Approachable :: Approachable (a.) Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue..
Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle..
Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..
Approximative :: Approximative (a.) Approaching; approximate.
Attract :: Attract (v. t.) To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition..
Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach..
Appulse :: Appulse (n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Approached :: Approached (imp. & p. p.) of Approac.
Near :: Near (v. i.) To draw near; to approach.
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