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Seat
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
(2):
(v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
(3):
(v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
(4):
(n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
(5):
(n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(n.) 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.
(8):
(v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
(9):
(v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
(10):
(v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
(11):
(v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
(12):
(n.) 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.
(13):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Seat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/seat.html. 1828.
