<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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</li><li>any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance</li><li>a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group: a siege of head colds</li><li>a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance</li><li>a flock of herons</li><li>the station of a heron at prey</li><li>the shelf or floor of a glassmaking furnace on which the glass pots are set</li><li>a seat, especially one used by a person of distinction, as a throne</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to assail or assault; besiege</li></ul>