Chair

·vt To place in a chair.

II. Chair ·noun A movable single seat with a back.

III. Chair ·vt To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

IV. Chair ·noun The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

V. Chair ·noun An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

VI. Chair ·noun An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but ·esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

VII. Chair ·noun A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

chair
In the Southern Stares, this name is given to that kind of one-horse pleasure carriage, which, in th...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Easy-chair
·noun An armchair for ease or repose. ...

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

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Rocking-chair
·noun A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock. ...

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barber's chair
She is as common as a barber's chair, in which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitut...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose