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What does "siege" mean?

Siege: Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.] Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. Painter (Palace of Pleasure).

Additional senses

  1. 2.Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.] I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. Shak.
  2. 3.Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.] The siege of this mooncalf. Shak.
  3. 4.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.
  4. 5.Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. Dryden.
  5. 6.The floor of a glass-furnace.
  6. 7.A workman's bench. Knught. Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations. -- Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.
  7. 8.To besiege; to beset. [R.] Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man. Buron.

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