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Word Meanings - ARMCHAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

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  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • CHAIRMAN
    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. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.
  • CHAIRMANSHIP
    The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.
  • SUPPORTER
    A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
  • SUPPORT
    convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
  • TENNYSONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
  • SUPPORTMENT
    Support. Sir H. Wotton.
  • SUPPORTRESS
    A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
  • CHAIR
    pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's 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. The chair of a philosophical
  • SUPPORTANCE
    Support. Shak.
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • UNSUPPORTABLE
    Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • MORRIS-CHAIR
    A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.
  • EASY-CHAIR
    An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.
  • BEDCHAIR
    A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.
  • ARMCHAIR
    A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.
  • ROCKING-CHAIR
    A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
  • ELBOWCHAIR
    A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

 

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