Word Meanings - BELEAGUER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army,
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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army, akin to E.
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- SHAMBLE
One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum - BOUNDLESS
Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite. - BESIEGER
One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - CRAWL STROKE
A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. - BELEAGUERER
One who beleaguers. - CREEPY
Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning. - CREEPLE
1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple - BOUNDING
Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery. - ENVIRONS
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield. - BESIEGEMENT
The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding. - BELEAGUER
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow. Syn. -- To block up; environ; invest; encompass. (more info) Dan. beleire); pref. be- = E. be- + leger bed, camp, army, - HOBBLEBUSH
A low bush having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple. - CRAWLY
Creepy. - SURROUND
To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise - CREEPINESS
An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander. - SURROUNDING
Inclosing; encircling. - CREEPIE
A low stool. - CRAWL
the hands; akin to Sw. kr to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls - CREEPING CHARLIE
The stonecrop . - HOME-BOUND
Kept at home. - OUTBOUND
Outward bound. Dryden. - UNBOUND
imp. & p. p. of Unbind. - UNBOUNDED
Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n. - SURREBOUND
To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman. - SCRAWLER
One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer. - REBOUND
1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. - OUTBOUNDS
The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser. - WINDBOUND
prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.