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 (Zoöl.), the pinworm.
Seat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.] 1. To place
on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm
debate.
Arbuthnot.
2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station;
to establish; to fix; to settle.
Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.
Shak.
They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
Sir W. Raleigh.
3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to
seat a church, or persons in a church.