Seat, sēt, n. that on which one sits: a chair, bench, &c.: the place or room where one sits, as in church, at a theatre, &c.: site: a place where anything is settled or established: post of authority: station: abode: a mansion: that part of the body or of a garment on which one sits: posture or situation on horseback: a right to sit: membership: sitting-room: a sitting: a sitting of eggs.—v.t. to place on a seat: to cause to sit down: to place in any situation, site, &c.: to establish: to fix: to assign a seat to: to furnish with seats: to fit accurately: to repair by making a seat new.—v.i. to lie down.—ns. Seat′-back, a loose ornamental covering for the back of a sofa or chair; Seat′-earth, in coal-mining, the bed of clay by which many coal-seams are underlain.—p.adj. Seat′ed, fixed, confirmed, located.—ns. Seat′-fas′tener, in a wagon, the screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body; Seat′ing, the act of furnishing with seats: haircloth: in shipbuilding, that part of the floor which rests on the keel; Seat′-lock, the lock of a reversible seat in railroad cars; Seat′-rail, a cross-piece between the legs, below the seat, of a chair, &c.; Seat′-worm, a pin-worm.—Seat of the soul, the sensorium.—Take a seat, to sit down. [A.S. sǽt, an ambush—sittan, to seat; or more prob. Ice. sæti, a seat—sat, pa.t. of sitja, to sit.]
Seave, sēv, n. a wick made of rush.—adj. Seav′y, overgrown with rushes.
Seax, sē′aks, n. a curved, one-edged sword, used by Germanic and Celtic peoples: (her.) a bearing representing a weapon like the seax. [A.S. seax.]
Sebaceous, sē-bā′shus, adj. pertaining to or secreting fat or fatty matter: (bot.) like tallow or wax, as the secretions of certain plants.—adj. Sēbac′ic, pertaining to or obtained from fat.—n. Sē′bāte, a salt formed by the combination of sebacic acid with a base.—adj. Sēbif′erous, sebaceous.—n. Sēborrhē′a, a disease of the sebaceous glands with excessive secretion—also Sēborrhœ′a.—adj. Sēborrhē′ic.—n. Sē′bum, the secretion of the sebaceous glands. [Low L. sebaceus—sebum, tallow.]
Se-baptist, sē-bap′tist, n. one who baptises himself.
Sebastomania, sē-bas-tō-mā′ni-a, n. religious insanity. [Gr. sebastos, reverenced, mania, madness.]
Sebat, sē-bat′, n. the fifth month of the Jewish civil year, and the eleventh of the ecclesiastical year, falling in part of January and February.
Sebesten, sē-bes′ten, n. a tree with plum-like fruit.—Also Sebes′tan. [Fr.,—Ar.]
Sebilla, sē-bil′a, n. in stone-cutting, a wooden bowl for holding the water used in sawing, &c. [Fr.]
Sebundy, sē-bun′di, n. a native soldier or local militiaman in India.—Also Sebun′dee. [Hind.]