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Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Caused by long sitting.

Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process..

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings..

Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church..

Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.

Assize :: Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury..

Straddle :: Straddle (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart..

Session :: Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated..

Sitting :: Sitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Si.

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..

Vis-a-vis :: Vis-a-vis (n.) A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides..

Adjournment :: Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc..

Seat :: Seat (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback..

Bedchair :: Bedchair (n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed..

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.

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