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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



308 words match “SEAT”

SEAT n. 13 definitions
saddle, or the like. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.
SEATING n. 2 definitions
The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
SEATLESS a.
Having no seat.
CASEATION n.
A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
COUNTRY SEAT n.
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
DISSEAT v.
To unseat. [R.] Shak.
HANSEATIC a.
Pertaining to the Hanse towns, or to their confederacy. Hanseatic league. See under 2d Hanse.
KEYSEAT v.
To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.
NAUSEATE v. 3 definitions
To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. Blackmore.
NAUSEATION n.
The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
NAUSEATIVE a.
Causing nausea; nauseous.
RESEAT v. 2 definitions
To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc. Dryden.
ROSEATE a. 2 definitions
Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
UNSEAT v. 2 definitions
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat. Cowper.
ADVANCE v.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.
AIRINESS n.
or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
ALCOVE n.
A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.
AMPHITHEATER; AMPHITHEATRE n.
An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.
ANGIOCARPOUS a.
ng that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.
APPEAR v.
vocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.
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