To take or have such a posture that the back is comparatively erect, while the rest of the body bends at the hips and generally at the knees, to conform to a support beneath; rest in such a posture; occupy a seat: said of persons, and also of some animals, as dogs and cats.To crouch, as a bird on a nest; hence, to brood; incubate.To perch in a crouching posture; roost: said of birds.To be or continue in a state of rest; remain passive or inactive; repose.To continue in a position or place; remain; stay; pass the time.To be located; have a seat or site; be placed; dwell; abide.To have a certain position or direction; be disposed in a particular way.To rest, lie, or bear (on); weigh; be carried or endured.To be worn or adjusted; fit, as a garment; hence used figuratively of anything assumed, as an air, appearance, opinion, or habit.To be incumbent; lie or rest, as an obligation; be proper or seemly; suit; comport.To abide; be confirmed; prosper.To place one's self in position or in readiness for a certain end: as, to sit for one's portrait; to sit for an examination, or for a fellowship in a university.To be convened, as an assembly; hold a session; be officially engaged in deliberative or judicial business.To occupy a seat in an official capacity; be in any assembly as a member; have a seat, as in Parliament; occupy a see (as bishop).To crack off and subside without breaking, as a mass of coal after holing and removal of the sprags.To establish one's self; settle.Milit., to encamp, especially for the purpose of besieging; begin a siege.To cease from action; pause; rest.To yield passively; submit as if satisfied; content one's self.To adhere firmly to anything.To quash; check; repress, especially by a snub.To maintain a sitting posture; sit with the back comparatively erect; not to be bedridden.To refrain from or defer going to bed or to sleep.Henceā To keep watch during the night or the usual time for sleeping: generally followed by with.To have or keep a seat upon.To seat: chiefly in reflexive use.To rest or weigh on; concern; interest; affect; stand (in expense); cost.To be incumbent upon; lie or rest upon; be proper for; suit; become; befit.To fit, as a garment.n. A subsidence or fall of the roof of a coal-mine.