Seat

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

II. Seat ·vt To Fix; to set firm.

III. Seat ·vi To Rest; to lie down.

IV. Seat ·vt To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

V. Seat ·vt To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

VI. Seat ·noun A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

VII. Seat ·vt To Settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.

VIII. Seat ·vt To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

IX. Seat ·noun That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.

X. Seat ·noun The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

XI. Seat ·noun A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.

XII. Seat ·noun The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.

XIII. Seat ·vt To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to Station; to Establish; to Fix; to Settle.

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