n. [ OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw. säte, Dan. saede, MHG. sāze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. √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 ]

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 ]

v. i. To rest; to lie down. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no seat. [ 1913 Webster ]