SITTING

noun a brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

2. sitting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of sit.

3. sitting ·adj being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

4. sitting ·noun the act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, ·etc.

5. sitting ·noun the state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

6. sitting ·noun the time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, ·etc.

7. sitting ·noun a seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, ·etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

8. sitting ·noun 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.