sitting
/ˈsɪtɪŋ/ noun C2- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. · Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.· The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird. · we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
- An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything. · I read it in two sittings.
Plural sittings
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The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.
Taking it up, the man returned to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service rendered him by the Eagle.
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
“Upon my word,” said Caderousse, from whose mind the friendly treatment of Dantès, united with the effect of the excellent wine he had partaken of, had effaced every feeling of envy or jealousy at Dantès’ good fortune,—“upon my word, Dantès is a downright good fellow, and when I see him sitting there beside his pretty wife that is so soon to be.
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