| • | The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like. |
| • | The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation. |
| • | That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons. |
| • | A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house. |
| • | Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. |
| • | A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. |
| • | To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. |
| • | To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. |
| • | To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. |
| • | To fix; to set firm. |
| • | To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. |
| • | To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. |
| • | To rest; to lie down. |
