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with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. The prison strong, Within whose keep the captive knights were laid. Dryden. The lower chambers of those gloomy keeps. Hallam. I think . . . the keep, or principal part of a castle, was so…

ial; as, to lay out a corpse. (e) To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. -- To lay siege to. (a) To besiege; to encompass with an army. (b) To beset pertinaciously. -- To lay the course (Naut.), to sail toward the port intended without jibing. -- To lay the land (Naut.), to cause it to disappear below the hori…

A siege or beleaguering. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

A besieger. [R.] J. Webster.

To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] Holland.

ndented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.

A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

To besiege; to beset. Sir T. Elyot.

The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without. Tylor. Whether by obsession or possession, I will not determine. Burton.

Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown (Rom.Antiq.), a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.

epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

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

g the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. -- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure. -- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some tempor…

; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town. Now lend assistance and relieve the poor. Dryden.

To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles.

to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron.