Definition of sitting

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

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Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
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 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..
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
Sitting :: Sitting (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits..
Downsitting :: Downsitting (n.) The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Caused by long 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..
Sitting :: Sitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Si.
Insession :: Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath..
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..
Session :: Session (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..
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..
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..
Sejeant :: Sejeant (a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast..
Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting.
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