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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Seat \Seat\ (s[=e]t), n. [OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw. s[aum]te, Dan. saede, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Settle}, n.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. --Matt. xxi. 12. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. --Rev. ii. 13. [1913 Webster] He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. [1913 Webster] She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. [1913 Webster] {Seat worm} (Zool.), the pinworm. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Seat \Seat\, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seating}.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. [1913 Webster] The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. [1913 Webster] Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak. [1913 Webster] They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] 3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. [1913 Webster] 4. To fix; to set firm. [1913 Webster] From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. [1913 Webster] 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: seat n 1: a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: {seat}, {place}] 2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}] 3: furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 4: any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" 5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) 6: the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason" 7: the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate" 8: a part of a machine that supports or guides another part 9: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v 1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: {seat}, {sit}, {sit down}] 2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" 3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: {induct}, {invest}, {seat}] 4: put a seat on a chair 5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" 6: place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod" 7: place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"