The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seat \Seat\ (s[=e]t), 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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
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(Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat worm (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.