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What does "seat" mean?

Seat: 2. 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. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.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.
  4. 5.Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.
  5. 6.(Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.
  6. 7.To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.
  7. 8.To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.
  8. 9.To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
  9. 10.To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. Milton.
  10. 11.To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.
  11. 12.To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
  12. 13.To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] Spenser.

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