Sit"ting , n.
1. The state or act
of one who
sits; the posture of one who
occupies a seat.
2. A seat,
or the space occupied by or allotted for a
person, in a
church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
3.
The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait
painter, photographer, etc.
4. The actual presence or meeting of
any body of
men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as,
a sitting of the judges of
the King's Bench, or of a commission.
The sitting closed in great agitation.
Macaulay.
5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
For the understanding of any one of St.
Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting.
Locke.
6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
The male bird
. . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her
sitting.
Addison.
Sitting room,
an apartment where the members of a family
usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.
Sit"ting (?), a. Being in the
state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
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