Definition of sitting

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Sitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Si.

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Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Footstool :: Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
Artichoke :: Artichoke (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food..
Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Caused by long sitting.
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting.
Outsit :: Outsit (v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay..
Preseance :: Preseance (n.) Priority of place in sitting.
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Straddle :: Straddle (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart..
Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
Bidet :: Bidet (n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
Equitant :: Equitant (a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback..
Parlor :: Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc..
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