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Chair [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

9. When Governor Shute came to the chair several of the old councilors were laid aside.

10. Curule chair an ivory seat placed on a car, used by the prime magistrates of Rome.

Chair [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

5. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Chair [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To place in a chair.

2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

Chair-man [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The presiding officer or speaker of an assembly, association or company, particularly of a legislative house; also, the president or senior member of a committee.

2. One whose business is to carry a chair.

Chaired [Imperfect tense and present participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chair

Chairing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chair

Chairman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.

Chairmanship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Chairmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Chairman