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.