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ationary; immovable. [R.] 'T is good, when you have crossed the sea and back, To find the sitfast acres where you left them. Emerson.

Since; afterwards; seeing that. [Obs.] We need not fear them, sith Christ is with us. Latimer. Sith thou art rightful judge. Chaucer.

Time. [Obs.] Chaucer. And humbly thanked him a thousand sithes. Spenser.

To sigh.

Scythed. [Obs.] T. Warton.

A mower. [Obs.] Marston.

Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith. [Obs.] Fortune was first friend and sithen foe. Chaucer.

Since. See Sith, and Sithen. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Sithen. [Obs.] Siththen that the world began. Chaucer.

A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics. [Written also sitiology.]

A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

p. p. of Sit, for sat.

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

Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.

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

To place. [R.] Landor.

Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore.

Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

The method in which the parts of a plant are arranged; also, the position of the parts. Henslow.

A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.