Obs. Also 4 asseege, 4–5 assege, 6 assige. [f. prec. Not in Fr.] A siege.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XVII. 270. He … To the toune ane assege set.
1469. Sir J. Paston, in Lett., 621, II. 375. I have herde … werse tydyngs syn the assege by gan.
1589. Ive, Fortif., 5. The Winde and Seas alteration is such, that an Assige at Sea cannot be continued.
1598. Florio, Oppugnatione … an assiege [not in ed. 1611].
