Definition of sitting

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Sitting (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits..

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Up :: Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied..
Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..
Sejeant :: Sejeant (a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast..
Unsitting :: Unsitting (a.) Not sitting well; unbecoming.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Loggia :: Loggia (n.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room..
Seat :: Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback..
Straddle :: Straddle (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart..
Assession :: Assession (n.) A sitting beside or near.
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
Insession :: Insession (n.) The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath..
Court :: Court (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes..
Parlor :: Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..
Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..
Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc..
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