transitive. To beset (literal and figurative); to bar (a way; with dative of person); to surround, invest (a city, etc.); to waylay, entrap (a…

To set or station themselves round, to surround with hostile intent. To set upon or assail on all sides (a person).

Scottish. To beset. Obsolete. rare.

To close in upon, surround; to enclose, take in. Also to include (in one's voyage).

Used only in passive voice: but by Spenser made a past tense and active pple. = beset, v.