Noun

(en noun)

A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

* Sir Walter Scott

Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid , the morning fight.

* H. Spenser

There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids .

An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

* {{quote-news

, year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

(sports) An attacking movement.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.}}

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.}}