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. 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. 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. 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. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.
Seat
(Seat), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.]
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. 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. 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. To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills.
Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.
6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seat
(Seat), v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] Spenser.
Sea tang
(Sea" tang`) (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.
To their nests of sedge and sea tang.
Longfellow. Sea term
(Sea" term`) A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.
Sea thief
(Sea" thief`) A pirate. Drayton.
Sea thongs
(Sea" thongs`) (Bot.) A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia lorea) found on the northern
coasts of the Atlantic. It has a thonglike forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
