This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as
you think.
Shak.
6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used
impersonally. [Obs.] Chaucer.
7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to
incubate.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
Jer. xvii. 11.
8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative
position; to have direction.
Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the
wind sits.
Selden.
Sits the wind in that quarter?
Sir W. Scott.
9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to
sit in Congress.
10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said
of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January;
the aldermen sit to- night.
11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic
representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit
to a painter.
To sit at, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] "A farmer can not
husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent". Bacon. -- To sit
at meat or at table, to be at table for eating. -- To sit down. (a) To
place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired.
(b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To
settle; to fix a permanent abode. Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as
satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search."
Rogers. -- To sit for a fellowship, to offer one's self for examination
with a view to obtaining a fellowship. [Eng. Univ.] -- To sit out. (a)
To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson. (b) To
outstay. -- To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations
of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching. -- To sit
up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep;
to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to
watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and
began to speak." Luke vii. 15.
Sit (?), v. t. 1. To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a
horse well.
Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse.
Prior.
2. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to;
-- used reflexively.
They sat them down to weep.
Milton.
Sit you down, father; rest you.
Shak.