Word Meanings - BEDCHAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

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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.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SITTINE
  Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.
• 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
  1. The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining. 2. That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind. 3. That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling,
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• SITTER
  1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust. 2. A bird that sits or incubates.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• ADJUSTABLE
  Capable of being adjusted.
• CHAIR
  1. To place in a chair. 2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
• SITTING
  1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat. 2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings. 3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• SITTEN
  p. p. of Sit, for sat.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• UPSITTING
  A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.
• 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.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• 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.
• PSITTACEOUS; PSITTACID
  Of or pertaining to the parrots, or the Psittaci. -- n.
• UNSITTING
  Not sitting well; unbecoming. "Unsitting words." Sir T. More.
• EASY-CHAIR
  An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.
• PSITTACI
  The order of birds which comprises the parrots.
• AWHILE
  For a while; for some time; for a short time.