Seat n.
1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. --Matt. xxi. 12.
2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. --Rev. ii. 13.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. --Bacon.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. --Macaulay.
3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot.
6. Mach. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat worm Zool., the pinworm.