The attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and, in a word, no one stands when it is possible to sit. Shopkeepers always sit, and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matthew 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sit.

2. (a.) Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

3. (n.) The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

4. (n.) A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

5. (n.) The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

6. (n.) The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.

7. (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

8. (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.