chaiselt

[ME., also chaysel, cheisel, cheysel, ME. chaunsel ), a ibilat camsil = Pr. cansil, camsil, 6. One of the iron blocks forming a kind of clutch by which, according to a common Eng-ed forms of cainsil, lish system, the rails in a railroad are supported and secured to the sleepers or ties. A joint chair is a chair that secures the connection of two rails at their ends. - Bath chair, an invalid's chair on wheels, intended to be pushed along by an attendant: so called from Bath in England, where invalids are conveyed to the springs in such chairs. - Cane chair. See canel.- Chair of St. Peter, the see of Rome, or the office of the papacy: so called from the tradition that St. Peter was the first bishop of Rome, and hence the founder of the papacy. Chair of state, a throne; the seat or dignity of any chief executive: as, Washington was unanimously called to the chair of state. - Curule chair. See curule. Easy chair. See easy - chair. - Folding chair, a chair having the seat, legs, and back hinged and jointed in various ways, so that it can be folded up into a small space when not in use; a camp-chair; also, a sea-chair. -Oculist's chair. See oculist. - St. Peter's Chair, the name of two Roman Catholic festivals, held on February 22d and January 18th, in celebration of St. Peter's traditional founding of the episcopacies of Antioch and of Rome on those dates respectively. - Windsor chair. (a) A kind of strong, plain, polished chair, made entirely of wood. He got up from his large wooden-seated windsor - chair. (b) A sort of low wheeled carriage. Dickens . IMG:content-0120.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. To place in a chair of office; install; enthrone. He took a big, grizzled, docile-looking fellow patronizingly by the arm and chaired him on a large cylinT. Winthrop, Love and Skates. chair-bearer (char'bar"èr), n. Same as chair man, 2. der-head. chair-bed (char'bed), n. Same as bed - chair. chair-bolt (char'bolt), n. A screw-bolt used for fastening a railroad-chair to the sleeper or tie. [Seldom used in the United States.]