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ends; - - much used as a comfortable piece of furniture. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. Cowper. Sofa bed, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed; -- called also sofa bedstead.

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.

A sofa or divan.

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

A kind of sofa for two person. A tête-a-tête.

A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.

A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.

river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.

To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.

unk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.) I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. Shak.

A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa. Punching the squab of chairs and sofas. Dickens. On her large squab you find her spread. Pope.

heater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.

of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.