Word Meanings - ELBOWCHAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

Related words: (words related to ELBOWCHAIR)

• 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.
• ARMCHAIR
  A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.
• 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
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• 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.
• ROCKING-CHAIR
  A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
• ELBOWCHAIR
  A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.