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-- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet. -- Camp fever, typhus fever. -- Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc. -- Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preachin…

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

s in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.

sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

A movable single seat with a back.

A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple. Ez. xxv. 18.

esign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism (#), n.

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.