Sitter
noun
1.
a person who sits.
2.
a brooding hen.
3.
a person who stays with young children while the parents go out; baby-sitter.
4.
a person who provides routine or custodial care temporarily or part-time, as for an elderly person or a pet whose owner is on vacation.
5.
Slang. the buttocks; rump.
noun
1.
Willem de
[wil-uh m duh] /ˈwɪl əm də/ (Show IPA), 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
noun
1.
a person or animal that sits
2.
a person who is posing for his or her portrait to be painted, carved, etc
3.
a broody hen or other bird that is sitting on its eggs to hatch them
4.
(in combination) a person who looks after a specified person or thing for someone else: flat-sitter
5.
short for baby-sitter
6.
anyone, other than the medium, taking part in a seance
7.
anything that is extremely easy, such as an easy catch in cricket
noun
1.
Willem de (ˈwɪləm də). 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer, who calculated the size of the universe and conceived of it as expanding
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