intransitive. To seat oneself; to take a seat; to sit down. Cf. to sit down 1 at phrasal verbs 1. Also with to (the table, a meal, etc.).

intransitive. To sit down; = to sit down 1 at phrasal verbs 1 to sit down 3 at phrasal verbs 1.

intransitive. To seat oneself; to take a seat. Also occasionally: to come accidentally to the ground in a sitting posture; to fall on one's…

†to make one's seat (obsolete), to take a seat: to sit down. to take one's seat: to take the sitting-place assigned to one; to assume one's…

= to set down at phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete.

Now dialect. intransitive. To sit down. (Cf. 5.)

intransitive for reflexive. To sit down; also (of animals) to lie down. Of a hare: To sit in its form.

intransitive and transitive (reflexive). Of a person: to seat oneself, sit down, take a seat. Now English regional (south-western).

intransitive. To seat oneself, to be seated; to perch. colloquial.

colloquial (originally British). A seat. Chiefly in friendly invitations to be seated, esp. in take a pew.