Word Meanings - UNSITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sitting well; unbecoming. "Unsitting words." Sir T. More.

UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
WORDSMAN
One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
UNSITTING
Not sitting well; unbecoming. "Unsitting words." Sir T. More.
SITTINE
Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.
SITTER
1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. 2. A bird that sits or incubates.
SITTING
Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
SITTEN
p. p. of Sit, for sat.
SWORDSMANSHIP
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
UPSITTING
A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.
SWORDSMAN
1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
PSITTACEOUS; PSITTACID
Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. -- n.
PSITTACI
The order of birds which comprises the parrots.
DOWNSITTING
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.
PSITTA-CO-FULVINE
A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.