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Webster 1913 Edition
Chair
Chair
(châr)
, Noun.
1.
A movable single seat with a back.
2.
An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
The
chair
of a philosophical school. Whewell.
A
chair
of philology. M. Arnold.
3.
The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman;
as, to address the
. chair
4.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
Shak.
Think what an equipage thou hast in air,
And view with scorn two pages and a
And view with scorn two pages and a
chair
. Pope.
5.
An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Chair days
, days of repose and age.
– To put into the chair
, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting.
Macaulay
. – To take the chair
, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.
Chair
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Chaired
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chairing
.] 1.
To place in a chair.
2.
To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
[Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Chair
CHAIR
,Noun.
1.
A movable seat; a frame with a bottom made of different materials, used for persons to sit in; originally a stool, and anciently a kind of pulpit in churches.2.
A seat of justice or of authority; as a chair of state.3.
A seat for a professor, or his office; as the professors chair.4.
The seat for a speaker or presiding officer of a public council, or assembly, as the speakers chair; and by a metonymy, the speaker himself; as, to address the chair.5.
A sedan; a vehicle on poles borne by men.6.
A pulpit.7.
A two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.8.
Supreme office or magistracy.When Governor Shute came to the chair, several of the old councilors were laid aside.
Curule chair, an ivory seat placed on a car, used by the prime magistrates of Rome.