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siege
(encz) | siege,obléhání n: web |
siege
(encz) | siege,obležení n: web |
Siege
(gcide) | Siege \Siege\, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[`e]ge a seat, a
siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio,
assedio, a siege, F. assi['e]ger to besiege, It. & LL.
assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr.
L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, n.]
1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] "Upon
the very siege of justice." --Shak.
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A stately siege of sovereign majesty,
And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. --Spenser.
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In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . .
And Merlin called it "The siege perilous."
--Tennyson.
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2. Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.]
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Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless
siege forever. --Painter
(Palace of
Pleasure).
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3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.]
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I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege. --Shak.
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4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.]
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The siege of this mooncalf. --Shak.
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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.
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6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
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Love stood the siege, and would not yield his
breast. --Dryden.
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7. The floor of a glass-furnace.
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8. A workman's bench. --Knught.
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Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations.
Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified
places.
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Siege
(gcide) | Siege \Siege\, v. t.
To besiege; to beset. [R.]
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Through all the dangers that can siege
The life of man. --Buron.
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siege
(wn) | siege
n 1: the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified
place and isolates it while continuing to attack [syn:
siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade] |
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Assiege
(gcide) | Assiege \As*siege"\, v. t. [OE. asegen, OF. asegier, F.
assi['e]ger, fr. LL. assediare, assidiare, to besiege. See
Siege.]
To besiege. [Obs.] "Assieged castles." --Spenser.
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A siege. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Besiege
(gcide) | Besiege \Be*siege"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besieged; p. pr. &
vb. n. Besieging.] [OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to
siege. See Siege.]
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of
compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to
beset.
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Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. --Shak.
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Syn: To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.
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Besieged
(gcide) | Besiege \Be*siege"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besieged; p. pr. &
vb. n. Besieging.] [OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to
siege. See Siege.]
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of
compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to
beset.
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Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. --Shak.
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Syn: To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.
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Besiegement
(gcide) | Besiegement \Be*siege"ment\, n.
The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
--Golding.
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Besieger
(gcide) | Besieger \Be*sie"ger\, n.
One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
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Resiege
(gcide) | Resiege \Re*siege"\ (r?-s?j"), v. t. [Pref. re- + siege a seat.]
To seat again; to reinstate. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Siege gun
(gcide) | Siege \Siege\, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[`e]ge a seat, a
siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio,
assedio, a siege, F. assi['e]ger to besiege, It. & LL.
assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr.
L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, n.]
1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] "Upon
the very siege of justice." --Shak.
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A stately siege of sovereign majesty,
And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. --Spenser.
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In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . .
And Merlin called it "The siege perilous."
--Tennyson.
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2. Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.]
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Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless
siege forever. --Painter
(Palace of
Pleasure).
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3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.]
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I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege. --Shak.
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4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.]
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The siege of this mooncalf. --Shak.
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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.
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6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
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Love stood the siege, and would not yield his
breast. --Dryden.
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7. The floor of a glass-furnace.
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8. A workman's bench. --Knught.
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Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations.
Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified
places.
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siege guns
(gcide) | Gun \Gun\ (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin;
cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon)
fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles,
consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which
the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge (such
as guncotton or gunpowder) behind, which is ignited by
various means. Pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, and
fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are
called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon,
ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc.
See these terms in the Vocabulary.
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As swift as a pellet out of a gunne
When fire is in the powder runne. --Chaucer.
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The word gun was in use in England for an engine to
cast a thing from a man long before there was any
gunpowder found out. --Selden.
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2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
cannon.
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3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
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Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore,
breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or
built-up guns; or according to their use, as field,
mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
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Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
Big gun or Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence
(Fig.), a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big
guns to tackle the problem.
Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun.
Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
moved.
Gun cotton (Chem.), a general name for a series of
explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and
cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun
cotton is frequenty but improperly called
nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ester
of nitric acid.
Gun deck. See under Deck.
Gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
is fired.
Gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
Gun port (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
Gun tackle (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
the gun port.
Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
Krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
Machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
gun or guns and fired in rapid succession. In earlier
models, such as the Gatling gun, the cartridges were
loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. In modern
versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by
levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the
bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel.
Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such
weapons, with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, {Gardner
gun}, Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for
their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are
machine guns.
To blow great guns (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n.,
3.
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Siege train
(gcide) | Siege \Siege\, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[`e]ge a seat, a
siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio,
assedio, a siege, F. assi['e]ger to besiege, It. & LL.
assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr.
L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, n.]
1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. [Obs.] "Upon
the very siege of justice." --Shak.
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A stately siege of sovereign majesty,
And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. --Spenser.
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In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . .
And Merlin called it "The siege perilous."
--Tennyson.
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2. Hence, place or situation; seat. [Obs.]
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Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless
siege forever. --Painter
(Palace of
Pleasure).
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3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. [Obs.]
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I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege. --Shak.
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4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. [Obs.]
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The siege of this mooncalf. --Shak.
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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.
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6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
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Love stood the siege, and would not yield his
breast. --Dryden.
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7. The floor of a glass-furnace.
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8. A workman's bench. --Knught.
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Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations.
Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified
places.
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Siegework
(gcide) | Siegework \Siege"work`\, n.
A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
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To lay siege to
(gcide) | Lay \Lay\ (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laid (l[=a]d); p. pr. &
vb. n. Laying.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr.
licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja,
Goth. lagjan. See Lie to be prostrate.]
1. To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against
something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a
book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower
lays the dust.
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A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the
den. --Dan. vi. 17.
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Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid. --Milton.
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2. To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with
regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a
corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers
on a table.
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3. To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to
lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
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4. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
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5. To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to
exorcise, as an evil spirit.
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After a tempest when the winds are laid. --Waller.
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6. To cause to lie dead or dying.
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Brave C[ae]neus laid Ortygius on the plain,
The victor C[ae]neus was by Turnus slain. --Dryden.
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7. To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
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I dare lay mine honor
He will remain so. --Shak.
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8. To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
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9. To apply; to put.
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She layeth her hands to the spindle. --Prov. xxxi.
19.
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10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to
assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
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The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
--Is. liii. 6.
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11. To impute; to charge; to allege.
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God layeth not folly to them. --Job xxiv.
12.
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Lay the fault on us. --Shak.
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12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on
one.
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13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a
particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
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14. (Law) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
--Bouvier.
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15. (Mil.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
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16. (Rope Making) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable,
etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as,
to lay a cable or rope.
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17. (Print.)
(a) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the
imposing stone.
(b) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
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To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or
careless. --Bacon.
To lay bare, to make bare; to strip.
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And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain.
--Byron.
To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration;
as, the papers are laid before Congress.
To lay by.
(a) To save.
(b) To discard.
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Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by.
--Bacon.
To lay by the heels, to put in the stocks. --Shak.
To lay down.
(a) To stake as a wager.
(b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay
down one's life; to lay down one's arms.
(c) To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle.
To lay forth.
(a) To extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's
self; to expatiate. [Obs.]
(b) To lay out (as a corpse). [Obs.] --Shak.
To lay hands on, to seize.
To lay hands on one's self, or {To lay violent hands on
one's self}, to injure one's self; specif., to commit
suicide.
To lay heads together, to consult.
To lay hold of, or To lay hold on, to seize; to catch.
To lay in, to store; to provide.
To lay it on, to apply without stint. --Shak.
To lay it on thick, to flatter excessively.
To lay on, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on
blows.
To lay on load, to lay on blows; to strike violently. [Obs.
or Archaic]
To lay one's self out, to strive earnestly.
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No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself
for the good of his country. --Smalridge.
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To lay one's self open to, to expose one's self to, as to
an accusation.
To lay open, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal.
To lay over, to spread over; to cover.
To lay out.
(a) To expend. --Macaulay.
(b) To display; to discover.
(c) To plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a
garden.
(d) To prepare for burial; 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
horizon, by sailing away from it.
To lay to
(a) To charge upon; to impute.
(b) To apply with vigor.
(c) To attack or harass. [Obs.] --Knolles.
(d) (Naut.) To check the motion of (a vessel) and cause
it to be stationary.
To lay to heart, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly.
To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or
restraint.
To lay unto.
(a) Same as To lay to (above).
(b) To put before. --Hos. xi. 4.
To lay up.
(a) To store; to reposit for future use.
(b) To confine; to disable.
(c) To dismantle, and retire from active service, as a
ship.
To lay wait for, to lie in ambush for.
To lay waste, to destroy; to make desolate; as, to lay
waste the land.
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Syn: See Put, v. t., and the Note under 4th Lie.
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To raise a siege
(gcide) | Raise \Raise\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised (r[=a]zd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa,
causative of r[imac]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to
raise.]
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1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place;
to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone
or weight. Hence, figuratively:
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(a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to
elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase
the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to
advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate;
to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
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This gentleman came to be raised to great
titles. --Clarendon.
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The plate pieces of eight were raised three
pence in the piece. --Sir W.
Temple.
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(b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to
excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as,
to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the
spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a
furnace.
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(c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to
raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature
of a room.
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2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or
posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast
or flagstaff. Hence:
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(a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from
a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
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They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their
sleep. --Job xiv. 12.
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(b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult,
struggle, or war; to excite.
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He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind.
--Ps. cvii.
25.
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Aeneas . . . employs his pains,
In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains.
--Dryden.
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(c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a
spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from
death; to give life to.
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Why should it be thought a thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts
xxvi. 8.
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3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to
appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause,
effect, or the like. Hence, specifically:
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(a) To form by the accumulation of materials or
constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise
a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
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I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxix.
3.
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(b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get
together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise
money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent."
--Chaucer.
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(c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or
propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops,
etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised
wheat where none grew before." --Johnson's Dict.
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Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the
Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the
rearing or bringing up of children.
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I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the
mountains of the North. --Paulding.
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(d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise,
come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
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I will raise them up a prophet from among their
brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii.
18.
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God vouchsafes to raise another world
From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
--Milton.
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(e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start;
to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
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Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex.
xxiii. 1.
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(f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
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Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry.
--Dryden.
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(g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as,
to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
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4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make
light and spongy, as bread.
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Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste.
--Spectator.
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5. (Naut.)
(a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher
by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook
light.
(b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets,
i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
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6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that
is, to create it. --Burrill.
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To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a
blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces
employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or
dispersing them.
To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to
increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing 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 temporary
expedient. [Colloq.]
To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great
disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang]
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Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause;
produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite.
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besiege
(wn) | besiege
v 1: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged
Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in,
circumvent]
2: cause to feel distressed or worried; "She was besieged by so
many problems that she got discouraged"
3: harass, as with questions or requests; "The press
photographers besieged the movie star" |
besieged
(wn) | besieged
adj 1: surrounded by hostile forces; "the besieged town" |
besieger
(wn) | besieger
n 1: an enemy who lays siege to your position
2: an energetic petitioner |
siege
(wn) | siege
n 1: the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified
place and isolates it while continuing to attack [syn:
siege, besieging, beleaguering, military blockade] |
siege of orleans
(wn) | siege of Orleans
n 1: a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan
of Arc in 1429 [syn: Orleans, siege of Orleans] |
siege of syracuse
(wn) | siege of Syracuse
n 1: the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won
by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)
[syn: Syracuse, siege of Syracuse]
2: the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually
won by Syracuse [syn: Syracuse, siege of Syracuse] |
siege of vicksburg
(wn) | siege of Vicksburg
n 1: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after
being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates
surrendered [syn: Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg] |
siege of yorktown
(wn) | siege of Yorktown
n 1: in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a
siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the
surrender ended the American Revolution [syn: Yorktown,
siege of Yorktown] |
siege perilous
(wn) | Siege Perilous
n 1: the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved
for the knight who would find the Holy Grail; it was fatal
for anyone else to sit in it |
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