Seat \Seat\, n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[ae]ti; akin to Sw. s["a]te, Dan. s[ae]de, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.]

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. 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 (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Seat \Seat\, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.]

--Spenser.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)