Siege

1. v. t. To besiege; to beset.
2. n. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
3. n. Hence, place or situation; seat.
4. n. Rank; grade; station; estimation.
5. n. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
6. n. 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.
7. n. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
8. n. The floor of a glass-furnace.
9. n. A workman’s bench.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.