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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..

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Equitant :: Equitant (a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

Vis-a-vis :: Vis-a-vis (n.) A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides..

Insession :: Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

Assession :: Assession (n.) A sitting beside or near.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..

Squat :: Squat (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

Session :: Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission..

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting.

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..

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