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n. the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
Syn. -- bedsitting room, bedsit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who sits for an extended period of time on top of a flagpole or other high column; -- a publicity stunt performed for various reasons. [ PJC ]

He [ Shipwreck Kelly ] was the great flagpole sitter of the thirties, the founding father of the whole discipline, who provided inspiration for many and even the pseudonym for one -- Van Nolan, who also called himself Shipwreck. Any serious polesitter believes himself an avatar of Shipwreck Kelly, and I was then and am now no exception. From: John A. Gould, Aerie (Berkshire Review, Volume XI, Number 1, Spring, 1975).

The two other holy men in Gregory's narrative had more exotic origins than the pair that has just been seen. Gregory encountered one of them when on a journey to the north-eastern parts of the Frankish kingdom. This was a Lombard, named Vulfolaic, who had spent some years in the arduous exercise of being a stylite, the Christian equivalent of a flagpole sitter; in other words, Vulfolaic was a monk whose main austerity consisted in living on top of a pillar. By carrying out this feat in the rain, snow, and frost of the Moselle valley, Vulfolaic had convinced the local population to overthrow and abandon the idol of Diana to which they were addicted. Walter Goffart, FOREIGNERS IN THE HISTORIES OF GREGORY OF TOURS (https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/download/15346/20501).

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) The order of birds which comprises the parrots. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. psittacus a parrot, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. psittacide. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. -- n. One of the Psittaci. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a parrot + L. fulvus yellow. ] A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Sit, for sat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bird that sits or incubates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. sitta the nuthatch, from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sitting closed in great agitation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

The male bird . . . amuses her [ the female ] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not sitting well; unbecoming. [ Obs. ] “Unsitting words.” Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]