Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SIT'TING
SIT'TING, ppr.
- Resting on the buttocks, or on the feet, as fowls; incubating; brooding; being in the actual exercise of authority, or being assembled for that purpose.
- adj. In botany, sessile, i. e. without petiole, peduncle or pedicel, &c.
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