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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sit \Sit\, v. i. [imp. {Sat}({Sate}, archaic); p. p. {Sat} ({Sitten}, obs.); p. pr & vb n. {Sitting}.] [OE. sitten, AS sittan; akin to OS sittian OFries sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete L. sedere, Gr ???, Skr. sad. [root]154. Cf {Assess},{Assize}, {Cathedral}, {Chair}, {Dissident}, {Excise}, {Insidious}, {Possess}, {Reside}, {Sanhedrim}, {Seance}, {Seat}, n., {Sedate}, {4th Sell}, {Siege}, {Session}, {Set}, v. t., {Sizar}, {Size}, {Subsidy}.] 1. To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak. 2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up as birds do on a branch, pole, etc 3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii 6. Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak. 4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on as a weight or burden sits lightly upon him The calamity sits heavy on us --Jer. Taylor. 5. To be adjusted; to fit as a coat sts well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak. 6. To suit one well or ill, as an act to become to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not --Jer. xvii. 11. 8. To have position, as at the point blown from to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott. 9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as to sit in Congress. 10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night. 11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made as a picture or a bust; as to sit to a painter. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sitting \Sit"ting\, a. Being in the state, or the position, of one who or that which sits. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sitting \Sit"ting\, n. 1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat. 2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as the hall has 800 sittings. 3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc 4. 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. The sitting closed in great agitation. --Macaulay. 5. The time during which one sits while doing something as reading a book, playing a game, etc For the understanding of any one of St Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting. --Locke. 6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting. --Addison. {Sitting room}, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sitting adj 1: (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: {seated}] [ant: {standing}] 2: not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target" n 1: the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting" [syn: {posing}] 2: the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting" 3: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: {seance}, {session}] 4: a session as of a legislature or court From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Sitting the attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and in a word no one stands when it is possible to sit Shopkeepers always sit and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matt. 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book.
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