(n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made
to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
(n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing
is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a
situation.
(n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of
a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
(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.
(n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
(n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as,
a valve seat.
(v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
one's self.
(v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
(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.
(v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
(v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
country.
(v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
(v. i.) To rest; to lie down.
