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noun

Siege n.

1.

A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. (Obs.) "Upon the very siege of justice." "A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay." "In our great hall there stood a vacant chair... And Merlin called it "The siege perilous.""

2.

Hence, place or situation; seat. (Obs.) "Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever."

3.

Rank; grade; station; estimation. (Obs.) "I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege."

4.

Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. (Obs.) "The siege of this mooncalf."

5.

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.

6.

Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. "Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast."

7.

The floor of a glass-furnace.

8.

A workman's bench.

Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations.

Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.

verb

Siege v. t. To besiege; to beset. (R.) "Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man."

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"Siege" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the kind in South America, Fonseca retaliated by the inauguration of more stringent methods than any which he had hitherto employed. A state of siege was declared in the capital, and Fonseca caused himself to be invested with every right and privilege of a dictator. These methods of terrorism he justified by the pretext of monarchical plots. Very soon, however, General Peixoto became prominent as a rival to the Presidency, ...

— South America • W. H. Koebel

... who again might be used as the wedge of Persia for operating upon ourselves, either immediately if circumstances should favour, or mediately through the Seiks and the Beloochees. On this theory we may see a justification for Lord Auckland in allowing some weight to the Persian Shah's siege of Herat. Connected with the alleged intrigues of the Russian agent, (since disavowed,) this movement of the Shah did certainly look very like a basis for that joint machinery which he and Russia were to work. Yet, on the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various

... Still one cannot know. An old frontier garrison-man, like myself, is not apt to put much reliance on Indian faith. We are now, God be praised! all within the stockade; and having plenty of arms and ammunition, are not likely to be easily stormed. A siege is out of the question; we are too well ...

— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper

... unsatisfactorily, so they quickly desisted. The English, the most practical of societies, have always left the Faubourg alone. It has been reserved for our countrywomen to lay the most determined siege yet recorded to ...

— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory

... of the Cid," which has already been given in this Library. Songs of the Cid were sung as early as the year 1147, are of like date with the "Magnanime Mensonge" and Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of British Kings." In 1248 St. Ferdinand gave allotments to two poets who had been with him during the Siege of Seville, and who were named Nicolas and Domingo Abod "of the Romances." There is also evidence from references to what "the juglares sing in their chants and tell in their tales," that in the middle of the thirteenth century tales of Charlemagne and of Bernardo del ...

— Mediaeval Tales • Various

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