Definition of sitting

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Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

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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..
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..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc..
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board which supports the back wen one is sitting.
Session :: Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated..
Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..
Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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..
Sitz Bath :: Sitz bath () A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath..
Sartorius :: Sartorius (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting..
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Upsitting :: Upsitting (n.) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends..
Seat :: Seat (n.) 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..
Sejeant :: Sejeant (a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast..
Bedchair :: Bedchair (n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed..
Sitting :: Sitting (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits..
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