Definition of: chair

(châr) noun
1. A movable or stationary seat, usually with four legs and a back and for one person.
2. A seat of office, as of a professor or moderator.
3. An office or officer; a chairman.
4. An iron block for holding railroad tracks in place.
5. The seat with long projecting arms on which the glass–blower rolls his blowpipe; also, the set of men working with him.
6. Obs. A sedan.
—v.t.
1. To put into a chair; install in office.
2. To preside over (a meeting).
3. In England, to carry in a chair in public; bear in triumph in a chair. [<F chaiere <L cathedra. Doublet of CATHEDRA.]