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English Dictionary: Sit	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sit v be seated Synonym(s): sit, sit down [ant: lie, stand, stand up] be around, often idly or without specific purpose; "The object sat in the corner"; "We sat around chatting for another hour" Synonym(s): sit, sit around take a seat Synonym(s): sit down, sit Antonym(s): arise, get up, rise, stand up, uprise be in session; "When does the court of law sit?" assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" Synonym(s): model, pose, sit, posture sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" Synonym(s): ride, sit be located or situated somewhere; "The White House sits on Pennsylvania Avenue" work or act as a baby-sitter; "I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do" Synonym(s): baby-sit, sit show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" Synonym(s): seat, sit, sit down serve in a specific professional capacity; "the priest sat for confession"; "she sat on the jury"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sit \Sit\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Sit}, for sitteth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sit \Sit\, v. i. [imp. {Sat}({Sate}, archaic); p. p. {Sat} ({Sitten}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sitting}.] [OE. sitten, AS. sittan; akin to OS. sittian, OFries. sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW. sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete, L. sedere, Gr. [?][?][?], Skr. sad. [root]154. Cf. {Assess},{Assize}, {Cathedral}, {Chair}, {Dissident}, {Excise}, {Insidious}, {Possess}, {Reside}, {Sanhedrim}, {Seance}, {Seat}, n., {Sedate}, {4th Sell}, {Siege}, {Session}, {Set}, v. t., {Sizar}, {Size}, {Subsidy}.] 1. To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak. 2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc. 3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii. 6. Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak. 4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him. The calamity sits heavy on us. --Jer. Taylor. 5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak. 6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11. 8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott. 9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress. 10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night. 11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sit \Sit\, v. t. 1. To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well. Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse. --Prior. 2. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively. They sat them down to weep. --Milton. Sit you down, father; rest you. --Shak. 3. To suit (well [or] ill); to become. [Obs. or R.]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
sit {Stuffit}