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Sit [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense sat; old participle passive sitten [Latin sedeo.]

2. To rest upon the buttocks, as animals; as, to sit on a sofa or on the ground.

3. To perch; to rest on the feet; as fowls.

4. To occupy a seat or place in an official capacity. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Matthew 23:2 .

5. To be in a state of rest or idleness. Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Numbers 32:6 .

6. To rest, lie or bear on, as a weight or burned; as, grief sits heavy on his heart.

7. To settle; to rest; to abide. Pale horror sat on each Arcadian face.

8. To incubate; to cover and warm eggs for hatching; as a fowl. As the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not- Jeremiah 17:1 .

9. To be adjusted; to be, with respect to fitness or unfitness; as, a coat sits well or ill. This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, sits not so easy on me as you think.

10. To be placed in order to be painted; as, to sit for one's picture.

11. To be in any situation or condition. Suppose all the church lands to be thrown up to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now?

12. To hold a session; to be officially engaged in public business; as judges, legislators or officers of any kind. The house of commons sometimes sits till late at night. The judges or the courts sit in Westminster hall. The commissioners sit every day.

13. To exercise authority; as, to sit in judgment. One council sits upon life and death.

14. To be in any assembly or council as a member; to have a seat.

15. To be in a local position. The wind sits fair. [Unusual]

16. To sit at meat , to be at table for eating.

17. To sit down ,

18. to place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down at a meal.

19. To begin a siege. The enemy sat down before the town.

20. To settle; to fix a permanent abode.

21. To rest; to cease as satisfied. Here we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search.

22. To sit out , to be without engagement or employment. [Little used.]

23. To sit up,

24. To rise or be raised from a recumbent posture. He that was dead sat up, and began to speak. Luke 7:1 .

25. Not to go to bed; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person.

Sit [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]

2. To sit me down, To sit him down, to sit them down, equivalent to I seated myself, _ c. are familiar phrases used by good writers, though deviation from strict propriety. They sat them down to weep.

3. 'The court was sat, ' an expression of Addison, is a gross impropriety.

Sit Webster's Dictionary 1913

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

Sit [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.

5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.

6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.

7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.

8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.

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.

12. To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.

13. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.

14. To suit (well / ill); to become.

Site [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Situation; local position; as the site of a city or of a house.

2. A seat or ground-plot; as a mill-site. But we usually say, mill-seat, by which we understand the place where a mill stands, or a place convenient for a mill.

3. The posture of a thing with respect of itself. The semblance of a lover fix'd in melancholy site [This is improper.]

Site [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

2. A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.

3. The posture or position of a thing.

Sited [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Placed; situated. [Not in use.]

Sited [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a site; situated.

Sitfast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A hard knob growing on a horse's back under the saddle.

Sitfast [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fixed; stationary; immovable.

Sitfast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

Sith [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Since; in later times.

Sith [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Sithe

Sith [Preposition and adverb and conjunction] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Since; afterwards; seeing that.

Sithe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Time.

2. SITHE , [ See Sythe .]

Sithe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Time.

2. A scythe.

Sithe [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To sigh.

Sithe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cut with a scythe; to scythe.

Sithed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Scythed.

Sitheman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mower.

Sithen [Adverb and conjunction] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith.

Sithence [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Since; in later times.

Sithence [Adverb and conjunction] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Sithens

Sithens [Adverb and conjunction] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Since. See Sith, and Sithen.

Sithes [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SITH'ENCE, SITH'ES, adverb Since; in later times.

Siththen [Adverb and conjunction] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Sithen.

Sitology [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics.

Sitophobia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A version to food; refusal to take nourishment.

Sitten Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. of Sit

2. p. p. of Sit, for sat.

Sitter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that sits. The Turks are great sitters.

2. A bird that sits or incubates.

Sitter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

2. A bird that sits or incubates.

Sittine [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.

Sitting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, sessile.

Sitting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The posture of being on a seat.

2. The act of placing one's self on a seat; as a sitting down.

3. The act or time of resting in a posture for a painter or take the likeness. For a portrait, six or seven sittings may be required.

4. A session; the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; as a sitting of the judges of the king's bench; a sitting of the house of commons; during the sitting of the supreme court.

5. An uninterrupted application to business or study for a time; course of study unintermitted. For the understanding of any one of Paul's epistles, I read it through at one sitting

6. A time for which one sits, as at play, at work or on a visit.

7. Incubation; a resting on eggs for hatching; as fowls. The male bird amuses the female with his songs, during the whole time of her sitting

Sitting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.

Sitting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

Sitting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

4. 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.

5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

Sitting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Sittingbourne Encyclopedia Britannica

SITTINGBOURNE, an ancient town of Kent, is situated on a navigable creek of the Swale, and on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, at the junction for Sheerness, 7 miles south from the latter town and 45 east-south-east of London. It consists principally of one long street and the northern suburb of Milton, formerly celebrated for its oysters, the fishery of which used to employ a large number of the inhabitants. Brickmaking is a very important industry, and there are large paper- mills. St Michael’s church, in the Early English and later styles, underwent extensive restoration in 1873 at a cost of nearly £3000. The principal other public buildings are the old town-hall, the corn exchange (erected 1859), and the museum. Public gardens 10 acres in extent have recently been laid out. The local government board was instituted in 1878. The population of the urban sanitary district (area 1004 acres) in 1871 was 6148 and in 1881 it was 7856.

Sittingbourne, or Sedyngburne, received a grant of a market and two annual fairs by a charter of Queen Elizabeth. The style “guardian and free tenants,” applied to the corporation in this charter, was subsequently changed to that of “mayor and jurats.”

See W. A. Scott Robertson, Sittingbourne and the Names of Lands and Houses in or near it, Sittingbourne, 1879.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 102
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Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 13:4

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 18:1

And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.

Genesis 19:1

And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 23:9

That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”

Genesis 23:10

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:20

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

Genesis 26:21

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Genesis 27:19

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

Genesis 27:31

And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

Genesis 31:34

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

Genesis 49:30

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Exodus 6:22

And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

Exodus 11:5

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

Exodus 18:14

And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?

When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.

Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.

Leviticus 15:6

And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Whoever sits on furniture on which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 15:20

And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean,