Châir1, n.
(4), n. [Fr. chaire, pulpit, in O. Fr. chair, contracted from Lat. cathedra, chair, arm-chair, a teacher’s or professor’s chair, Gr. καθέδρα. See CATHEDRA.]
Sense 1. A movable seat with a back, intended for one person.
Sense 2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate, a judge, a professor; a pulpit; hence, the office itself.
The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell.
Sense 3. The presiding officer of an assembly; as, to address the chair.
Sense 4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse, a gig.
Sense 5. An iron block used on railways to support and secure the rails. Tomlinson.
Chair, and chair-day, the evening of life. “In thy reverence, and thy chair-days, thus to die in ruffian battle.”
Should bring thy father to his drooping chair. Shak.