subs. (old colloquial).—1. Excrement; fæcal matter; (2) a jakes; and (3) defecation: as verb. = to stool (B. E., c. 1696).
1548. BARCLAY, Eclogues [CUNNINGHAM].
| For sure the lord’s SIEGE and the rural man’s | |
| Is of like savour. |
1603. JONSON, Sejanus, i. 2.
| Sej. Why, sir, I do not ask you of their urines, | |
| Whose smell’s most violet, or whose SIEGE is best, | |
| Or who makes hardest faces on her stool? |
1609. SHAKESPEARE, Tempest, ii. 2. How cam’st thou to be the SIEGE of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
1646. SIR T. BROWNE, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, ii. v. It … accompanieth the unconvertible portion unto the SIEGE.
