Sitting

·noun A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

II. Sitting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Sit.

III. Sitting ·adj Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

IV. Sitting ·noun The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, ·etc.

V. Sitting ·noun The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

VI. Sitting ·noun The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, ·etc.

VII. Sitting ·noun A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, ·etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

VIII. Sitting ·noun The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.