Best Chair Glider

–adjective, superl. of good with better as compar.

1.	of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.

2.	most advantageous, suitable, or desirable: the best way.

3.	largest; most: the best part of a day.

–adverb, superl. of well with better as compar.

4.	most excellently or suitably; with most advantage or success: an opera role that best suits her voice.

5.	in or to the highest degree; most fully (usually used in combination): best-suited; best-known; best-loved.

–noun

6.	something o 3e8 r someone that is best: They always demand and get the best. The best of us can make mistakes.

7.	a person's finest clothing: It's important that you wear your best.

8.	a person's most agreeable or desirable emotional state (often prec. by at).

9.	a person's highest degree of competence, inspiration, etc. (often prec. by at).

10.	the highest quality to be found in a given activity or category of things (often prec. by at): cabinetmaking at its best.

11.	the best effort that a person, group, or thing can make: Their best fell far short of excellence.

12.	a person's best wishes or kindest regards: Please give my best to your father.

–verb (used with object)

13.	to get the better of; defeat; beat: He easily bested his opponent in hand-to-hand combat. She bested me in the argument.

—Idioms

14.	all for the best, for the good as the final result; to an ultimate advantage: At the time it was hard to realize how it could be all for the best. Also, for the best.

15.	as best one can, in the best way possible under the circumstances: We tried to smooth over the disagreement as best we could.

16.	at best, under the most favorable circumstances: You may expect to be treated civilly, at best.

17.	get or have the best of, a. to gain the advantage over. b. to defeat; subdue: His arthritis gets the best of him from time to time.

18.	had best, would be wisest or most reasonable to; ought to: You had best phone your mother to tell her where you are going.

19.	make the best of, to cope with in the best way possible: to make the best of a bad situation.

20.	with the best, on a par with the most capable: He can play bridge with the best.

–noun

1.	a seat, esp. for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.

2.	something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.

3.	a seat of office or authority.

4.	a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.

5.	the person occupying a seat of office, esp. the chairperson of a meeting: The speaker addressed the chair.

6.	(in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: first clarinet chair.

7.	the chair, Informal. electric chair.

8.	chairlift.

9.	sedan chair.

10.	(in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.

11.	a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.

12.	British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.

–verb (used with object)

13.	to place or seat in a chair.

14.	to install in office.

15.	to preside over; act as chairperson of: to chair a committee.

16.	British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.

–verb (used without object)

17.	to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.

—Idioms

18.	get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.

19.	take the chair, a. to begin or open a meeting. b. to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.

–noun

1.	a motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.

2.	a porch swing made of an upholstered seat suspended from a steel framework by links or springs.

3.	a person or thing that glides.

4.	a person who pilots a glider.