Word Meanings - BESIEGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv.

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• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• LAYING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
• SIEGEWORK
  A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
• SIEGE
  It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assiéger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
• LAYNER
  A whiplash.
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• LAYMAN
  1. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which
• LAYETTE
  The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.
• LAY
  of Lie, to recline.
• LAYSHIP
  The condition of being a layman. Milton.
• LAYSTALL
  1. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon. 2. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
• LAY READER
  A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church.
• LAY SHAFT; LAYSHAFT
  A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• BESIEGER
  One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• OVERLAY
  To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
• CLAYISH
  Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
• UNLAY
  To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• RELAY
  To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
• CLAYES
  Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• BALAYEUSE
  A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.