Definition of sitting

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

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Upsitting :: Upsitting (n.) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends..
Assession :: Assession (n.) A sitting beside or near.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..
Equitant :: Equitant (a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback..
Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..
Sartorius :: Sartorius (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc..
Sitting :: Sitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Si.
Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Straddle :: Straddle (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart..
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Caused by long sitting.
Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..
Bedchair :: Bedchair (n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed..
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Preseance :: Preseance (n.) Priority of place in sitting.
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