(a) A seat; a chair, stool, bench; the ceremonial seat of a king, high official, an angel, etc., a throne; a seat in church, pew; a seat on the back of an ass; a chariot seat, a cart seat; ~ stol, ?a privy seat [see stol n., 1.(d)]; ~ tables, window seats; maken faire ~, to give (sb.) a comfortable seat; taken ~, take (one's) seat; (b) the part of a throne or of a saddle on which one sits; (c) ~ perilous, the seat of the Round Table reserved for the knight who should achieve the quest of the Grail; (d) an episcopal see; a high church office; (e) a headquarters, center of government, court; also, a religious center, shrine [last quot.]; (f) an abode; a place, region; the place where something is normally positioned, proper place; also fig.; (g) fig. a high position in the world; david(es ~, David's throne, the kingship of David; (h) juge ~, a judge's seat; juge ~ of god, the Judgment Seat of God.

(a) A privy, latrine; a chamber pot, stool; ~ hous, an outhouse; gon (wenden) to ~, to go to stool, void the bowels or bladder; (b) the seat of a privy; ~ persed; (c) evacuation of the bowels or bladder; haven a (maken) ~, to evacuate.

(a) The act or process of besieging a city, castle, etc., a siege; thei of the ~, those under siege; (b) an encampment of besiegers; a company of besiegers; assailen ~, to attack the besiegers; (c) a pictorial representation of a siege; also, a literary account of a siege [1st quot.]; also in book titles and colophons; ben of the ~, to depict a siege pictorially; (d) in selected phrases: breken (putten awei, remeven) ~, to relieve a siege; comen to ~ ward, come toward the siege; continuen (lengen in) ~, continue a siege; don (maken) ~, bring siege; holden (kepen) ~, carry on a siege; leien (plaunten, putten, setten) ~, lay siege; lien at (in) ~, lie in siege; maintenen ~, resist a siege.

(a) A station of a heron on the watch for prey; also, as a term of association for herons or bitterns, a flock; (b) in place name [see Smith PNElem.2.117].