Word Meanings - BESIEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.

• Armisonant
  Alt. of Armisonous
• Armory
  A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
• Besetter
  One who, or that which, besets.
• ARMORPLATED
  Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).
• Armful
  As much as the arm can hold.
• Armisonous
  Rustling in arms; resounding with arms.
• Armozeen
  Alt. of Armozine
• Compelled
  of Compel
• Siegework
  A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
• ARMOZEENARMOZINE
  A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.
• Armgaunt
  With gaunt or slender legs. (?)
• Arm-gret
  Great as a man's arm.
• Armistice
  A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
• Armozine
  A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical.
• Compelling
  of Compel
• Surrendered
  of Surrender
• ARMYORGANIZATION
  The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the
• Armhole
  The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

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