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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seat \Seat\, n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[ae]ti; akin to Sw s["a]te, Dan. s[ae]de, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS set setl, and E. sit [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf {Settle}, n.] 1. 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 And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. --Matt. xxi. 12. 2. 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. Where thou dwellest even where Satan's seat is --Rev. ii 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. --Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. --Macaulay. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot. 6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as a valve seat. {Seat worm} (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seat \Seat\, v. i. To rest; to lie down [Obs.] --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr & vb n. {Seating}.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down as to seat one's self The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot. 2. To cause to occupy a post site, situation, or the like to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. To assign a seat to or the seats of to give a sitting to as to seat a church, or persons in a church. 4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. 6. To put a seat or bottom in as to seat a chair. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: seat n 1: a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: {place}] 2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on [syn: {buttocks}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}] 3: furniture that is designed for sitting on "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 4: any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" 5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) 6: the cloth that covers the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v 1: show to a seat; assign a seat for: "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: {sit}, {sit down}] 2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" 3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "We were inducted into the honor society" [syn: {induct}, {invest}] 4: put a seat on a chair 5: provide with seats, as of a concert hall, for example
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