ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. U.S. Of land: Unsettled, unoccupied. Obs.
1662. Laws of Virginia, lxxii. 43. [It] must in a short time leave the greatest part of the Country, unseated and unpeopled.
1689. Col. Rec. Pennsylv., I. 318. Where land is unseated.
1734. Acts Assembly Pennsylv. (1762), I. 102. Exempting … all unsettled Tracts or Parcels of Land, That is to say, such Tracts of Land as … are unseated.
1800. Farmer’s Reg., 29 March (Thornton). The owners of unseated lands in Westmoreland.
1877. Burroughs, Taxation, 208.
2. Not seated; not provided with a seat.
[1775. Ash.]
1883. D. C. Murray, Hearts, ix. She was still unseated, and he approached her.
