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CHAIRMAN

Volume 5 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

the president, or speaker of an assembly, company, &c. We say, the chairman of a committee, &c.

CHALIS, a fort of light open chariot, or calash. Aurelius Victor relates, that Trajan first introduced the use of post chaises; but the invention is generally ascribed to Augustus; and was probably only improved by Trajan and succeeding emperors.