Seat

sēt, n. that on which one sits: a chair, bench, .: the place or room where one sits, as in church, at a theatre, .: site: a place where anything is settled or established: post of authority: station: abode: a mansion: that part of the body or of a garment on which one sits: posture or situation on horseback: a right to sit: membership: sitting-room: a sitting: a sitting of eggs.— v.t. to place on a seat: to cause to sit down: to place in any situation, site, .: to establish: to fix: to a ign a seat to: to furnish with seats: to fit accurately: to repair by making a seat new.— v.i. to lie down.— ns. Seat′-back , a loose ornamental covering for the back of a sofa or chair; Seat′-earth , in coal-mining, the bed of clay by which many coal-seams are underlain.— p.adj. Seat′ed , fixed, confirmed, located.— ns. Seat′-fas′tener , in a wagon, the screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body; Seat′ing , the act of furnishing with seats: haircloth: in shipbuilding, that part of the floor which rests on the keel; Seat′-lock , the lock of a reversible seat in railroad cars; Seat′-rail , a cro -piece between the legs, below the seat, of a chair, .; Seat′-worm , a pin-worm.— Seat of the soul , the sensorium.— Take a seat , to sit down. [A.S. sǽt , an ambush— sittan , to seat; or more prob. Ice. sæti , a seat— sat , pa.t. of sitja , to sit.]