Definition of sitting

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

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Seat :: Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc..
Footstool :: Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
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..
Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
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..
Squat :: Squat (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..
Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..
Insession :: Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath..
Session :: Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated..
Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
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..
Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..
Sitz Bath :: Sitz bath () A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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