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Entry 13 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Seat

/(sēt)/ · IPA /siːt/
01 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.
  1. 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.
    “And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.” — Matt. xxi. 12.
  2. 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.
    “Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.” — Rev. ii. 13.
    “He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.” — Bacon.
    “A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.” — Macaulay.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 5.
    Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
    “She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.” — G. Eliot.
  6. 6.
    A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.(Mach.)
Phrases & compounds
Seat worm — the pinworm.
02 v. t. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating
  1. 1.
    To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
    “The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.” — Arbuthnot.
  2. 2.
    To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
    “Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.” — Shak.
    “They had seated themselves in New Guiana.” — Sir W. Raleigh.
  3. 3.
    To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
  4. 4.
    To fix; to set firm.
    “From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.” — Milton.
  5. 5.
    To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.[Obs.]
  6. 6.
    To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
03 v. i. To rest; to lie down.
  1. 1.
    To rest; to lie down.[Obs.]