Definition of sit

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Sit (v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter..

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Callus :: Callus (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece..
Hemacite :: Hemacite (n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..
Bibber :: Bibber (n.) One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber..
Couche :: Couche (v. t.) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point..
Intensity :: Intensity (n.) The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc..
Synthetical :: Synthetical (a.) Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical..
Impetuosity :: Impetuosity (n.) Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper..
Taintworm :: Taintworm (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
Frame :: Frame (n.) Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame..
Crinkle :: Crinkle (v. t.) To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice..
Otiosity :: Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall..
Subimago :: Subhyoidean (a.) Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy..
Quercitin :: Quercitin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Hesitancy :: Hesitancy (n.) A stammering; a faltering in speech.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and / (f/d), etc., from i (ill) and / (f/t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 13..
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