Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SITE, n. [L. situs, Eng. seat; from the root of L. sedeo, to sit. The Roman pronunciation was seetus.]

1. Situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
2. A seat or ground-plot; as, a mill-site. But we usually say, mill-seat, by which we understand the place where a mill stands, or a place convenient for a mill.
3. The posture of a thing with respect to itself. The semblance of a lover fix'd / In melancholy site. – Thomson. [This is improper.]