Noun

(en noun)

A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.

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, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.}}

A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and is used to control the animal while lungeing.

An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.

A fish, the namaycush.

Noun

a lung

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Noun

(en noun)

(label) A seat.

#(label) A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.

#*.

#*:Now Merlyn said kyng Arthur / goo thow and aspye me in al this land l knyghtes whiche ben of most prowesse & worship / within short tyme merlyn had founde suche kny?tesThenne the Bisshop of Caunterbury was fette and he blessid the syeges' with grete Royalte and deuoycyon / and there sette the viij and xx knyghtes in her ' syeges

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vii:

#*:To th'vpper part, where was aduaunced hye / A stately siege of soueraigne maiestye; / And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.

#(label) An ecclesiastical see.

#(label) The place where one has his seat; a home, residence, domain, empire.

#The seat of a heron while looking out for prey; a flock of heron.

#(label) A privy or lavatory.

#(label) The anus; the rectum.

#*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:

#*:Another ground were certain holes or cavities observable about the siege ; which being perceived in males, made some conceive there might be also a feminine nature in them.

#(label) Excrements, stool, fecal matter.

#*1610 , (The Tempest) , by (William Shakespeare), act 2 scene 2

#*:Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou / to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

#(label) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:I fetch my life and being / From men of royal siege .

#(label) The floor of a glass-furnace.

#(label) A workman's bench.

#:(Knight)

(label) Military action.

#A prolonged military assault or a blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.

#*1748 , (David Hume), Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3 §5:

#*:The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.

#(label) A period of struggle or difficulty, especially from illness.

#(label) A prolonged assault or attack.

#*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}