See Also: Coco River(encyclopedia)
coco-de-mer(dictionary)
coco(dictionary)
Coco the Clown(dictionary)
coco-plum(dictionary)
Coco Pazzo(tourism)
Sol Cayo Coco(tourism)
Melia Cayo Coco(tourism)
Coco Pazzo Cafe(tourism)
Tryp Cayo Coco(tourism)

besiege (iou) and Coco River (sh)


besiege (iou)



besiege verb trans. ME.
[from ASSIEGE by substitution of BE-.]
Place armed forces before or around (a town etc.) in order to capture it; lay siege to. ME.
transf. & fig. Assail, crowd round, beset. E17.
Shakespeare Sonnets When forty winters shall besiege thy brow. W. Gerhardie He was besieged with notes requesting private interviews.
besieger noun M16.

Coco River (sh)




formerly Segovia River

River, Central America.

Rising in southern Honduras, it flows 485 mi (780 km) to enter the Caribbean Sea at Cape Gracias a Dios. In 1961 its middle and lower course was declared the international boundary between Honduras and Nicaragua. Only the lower 140 mi (225 km) are navigable.