Besieger: alternatives and connections

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative;…

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as,…

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth wi…

That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the p…

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examinati…

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution o…

An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.

That besieges; laying siege to.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of…

A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night; the light of the sun, as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light.

an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen)

The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.