[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.", "any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.", "a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group:a siege of head colds.", "a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance.", "Also Ornithology.a flock of herons.the station of a heron at prey.", "a flock of herons.", "the station of a heron at prey.", "the shelf or floor of a glassmaking furnace on which the glass pots are set.", "Obsolete.a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne.station as to rank or class.", "a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne.", "station as to rank or class."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to assail or assault; besiege ."]}]