beleaguer
21beleaguer — v.tr. 1 besiege. 2 vex; harass. Etymology: Du. belegeren camp round (as BE , leger a camp) …
22Beleaguered — Beleaguer Be*lea guer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beleaguered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beleaguering}.] [D. belegeren (akin to G. belagern, Sw. bel[ a]gra, Dan. beleire); pref. be = E. be + leger bed, camp, army, akin to E. lair. See {Lair}.] To surround with …
23Beleaguering — Beleaguer Be*lea guer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beleaguered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beleaguering}.] [D. belegeren (akin to G. belagern, Sw. bel[ a]gra, Dan. beleire); pref. be = E. be + leger bed, camp, army, akin to E. lair. See {Lair}.] To surround with …
24beset — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. besiege, attack, invest; stud (See ornament). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. besiege, assail, plague, harass; see attack 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at attack . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. plague,… …
25besiege — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. beset, surround, beleaguer, invest; plague, pester. See attack. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. lay siege to, blockade, close in on, beset; see attack 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. 1. surround… …
26besiege — besiege, beleaguer, invest, blockade mean to surround an enemy in a fortified or strong position so as to prevent ingress or egress. Besiege implies a sitting down before the entrances to a fortified place (as a castle or a walled town), and it… …
27Forty Years On (song) — Forty Years On is a song written by Edward Ernest Bowen and John Farmer in 1872.Forty Years On is a song about life at school and is meant to give pupils now an idea of what it will be like in forty years when they return to their old school, and …
28ἀμφιστρατόωντο — ἀ̱μφιστρατόωντο , ἀμφιστρατάομαι beleaguer imperf ind mp 3rd pl (epic doric aeolic) ἀμφιστρατάομαι beleaguer imperf ind mp 3rd pl (epic) ἀμφιστρατάομαι beleaguer imperf ind mp 3rd pl (epic) …
29List of English words of Dutch origin — This is a list of words of Dutch language origin. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German equivalents instead or as well. Some of… …
30legh- — To lie, lay. Derivatives include ledge, lair, beleaguer, lees, law, and fellow. 1. Suffixed form *legh yo . a. lie1, from Old English licgan, to lie, from Germanic *lig …
