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The word is also applied to the office of a professor, etc., as The chair of poetry, in Oxford, is now vacant.
The word is furthermore applied to the president of a committee or public meeting. Hence- Chair When members of the House of Commons and other debaters call out Chair, they mean that the
chairman is not properly supported, and his words not obeyed as they ought to be. Another form of the
same expression is, Pray support the chair. For a nurse, the child to dandle, |
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