| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. | 
											
															| • | A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as,
   a valve seat. | 
											
															| • | To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
   one's self. | 
											
															| • | To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
   to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. | 
											
															| • | To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting
   to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. | 
											
															| • | To fix; to set firm. | 
											
															| • | To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
   country. | 
											
															| • | To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. | 
											
															| • | To rest; to lie down. |