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Seat \Seat\ (s[=e]t), n. [OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw.
s[aum]te, Dan. saede, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E.
sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Settle}, n.]
1. 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.
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And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money
changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
--Matt. xxi.
12.
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2. 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.
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Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
--Rev. ii. 13.
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He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat
committeth himself to prison. --Bacon.
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A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
--Macaulay.
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3. 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.
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4. 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.
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5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
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She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted
with any mount. --G. Eliot.
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6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface
rests; as, a valve seat.
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{Seat worm} (Zool.), the pinworm.
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