A frame-work of hoops, usually of whalebone, worked into some kind of cloth, formerly used for extending the skirts of women's dresses; a hooped…

an upright chair without arms.

A high-legged chair designed for a baby or young child, now usually one fitted with a footrest, straps, and a movable tray, and typically used at…

a chair with a carved scroll ornament.

(a) a chair of Turkish make; (b) the sphenoid bone (of the horse); also Turkey-chair bone.

a chair or seat inlaid with ivory and shaped like a camp-stool with curved legs, used by the highest magistrates of Rome.

a chair designed for reading, spec. one equipped with a bookrest on one arm.

A chair seat made of rush. Also: a chair having such a seat.

(a) a type of upright chair on which a person sits facing the back (see quot. 1793); (b) = tête-à-tête, n. 2.

attributive in names of various things now or originally obtained, made, cultivated, etc. at or near… (see quot.).

any of various types of chair named in honour of the Battle of Trafalgar; (in later use chiefly) a light, graceful, Regency chair with legs…

(i.e. with a top like a beehive)

Used attributively to designate any one of various chairs made by Hitchcock or produced in his chair factory at Barkhamsted, Conn.

(a) a seat for a dressing table; (b) an approximately oval ring of plastic or wood fitting the top of a toilet bowl, typically hinged at the back…

figurative. A kind of chair (? named from its shape).

In full prie-dieu chair. A chair with a low seat and a tall sloping back, used as a prayer seat or stool; (also) a chair of this form for…

a deep semicircular chair resembling a tub.

an upholstered chair having a back shaped like a barrel.

In full Cromwell chair. = Cromwellian chair (see Cromwellian, adj.).

a chair the seat of which turns horizontally on a pivot.

a lounge-chair such as is used on the deck of a steamer.

Anglo-Irish. A straw rope; a saddle. Also attributive in suggan chair.

a garden chair, esp. a reclining garden chair.

A chair seat resembling a saddle, esp. in being curved; (also) a chair with such a seat.

(cf. Bombay furniture n.).

attributive and in other combinations, as veranda-chair, veranda pillar, veranda-post, etc.; veranda-builder, veranda-like adj.

The letter considered with regard to its shape: chiefly attributive and in other combinations. Hence identified with a cross. X's and O's: the…

a type of 17th-century upright chair, usually distinguished by an open backrest and arched cross-rails.

A thing that swings to and fro; †a swing for recreation; a kind of lever; a coat with swinging tails or skirt. See also jimswinger, n.

A chair upholstered with saddlebag carpeting (see compounds 2). rare.

A chair or stool which features a backing or seat made of criss-crossing strips of worked leather.

a cantilever chair having a frame consisting of metal tubes.

a low-seated, frequently upholstered chair with a high back.

A chair designed by the Eameses, or in the functional style popularized by them, esp. one made of moulded plastic or plywood.

one that is shaped to fit the form of the body, esp. one designed for the use of an astronaut.

used attributively and absol. to designate (a) a woman's shoe which has an open back and is held on by a strap across the heel; so sling-backed adj.…

a sling-back chair (see sling-back n. (b) above).

a kind of raised seat for a young child, designed to fit on an ordinary chair or car seat.

= booster chair n.

A large bag loosely filled with small pellets of polystyrene or similar material, used as a seat or floor cushion which moulds itself to the shape…

(see quot. 1970).

In full papasan chair. A rattan chair consisting of a cushion in a large, bowl-shaped basket set on a cylindrical base.

A type of garden chair, typically made from slatted wood and having flat, wide armrests and a seat which slants downwards towards a fan-shaped…