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Sitting :: Sitting (n.) 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..

Seat :: Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Footstool :: Footstool (n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

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..

Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

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..

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..

Sederunt :: Sederunt (n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body..

Assession :: Assession (n.) A sitting beside or near.

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

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

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..

Sedent :: Sedent (a.) Sitting; inactive; quiet.

Equitant :: Equitant (a.) Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback..

Sooterkin :: Sooterkin (n.) A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme..

Artichoke :: Artichoke (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food..

Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church..

Confessionalist :: Confessionalist (n.) A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession..

Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life..

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