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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.

One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

To seat in a chair. Tennyson.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.

Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton.

ivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

us earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. -- Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." Dickens. -- Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one poun…

g seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low…

bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. Thackeray.