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particapate or cannot be depended upon. (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]…

ssembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. Sitting with their knees deflected under them. Lord (1630).

To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. To double-bank an oar, to set two men to pulling one oar.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.

in the free or statical condition; free electricity. -- Free church. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. -- Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent…

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. Ray.

first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also,the place of their sittings. -- Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. -- Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof,in a double-plated roof.…

The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] Holland.

, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

In a judicial capacity or judicial manner. "The Lords . . . sitting judicially." Macaulay.

ork of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping. Keeping room, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.]

h it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.

A suitable companion; a match; an equal. Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar. Milton.

n the Lotus, Amen," and referring to Amitabha, who is commonly represented as standing or sitting within a lotus.

To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

eland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.

In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing- room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.