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To place. [R.] Landor.

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

Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.

ally, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al"le*gha`ny.

The part or notes situated above F in alt.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.

ey are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.

Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.

(Bot.) A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.