*chap*

v. i. [ See Cheapen. ] To bargain; to buy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. kiæft jaw, person, E. chap jaw. ] 1. A buyer; a chapman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If you want to sell, here is your chap. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chapped p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping. ] [ See Chop to cut. ] 1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike; to beat. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Chap, v. t. & i. ] 1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A blow; a rap. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. Käft, D. kiæft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. Chops. ] 1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

He unseamed him [ Macdonald ] from the nave to the chaps. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Mex. Sp. ] Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ Mex. Sp. ] Same as Chaparajos. [ Sp. Amer. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp., fr. chaparro an evergeen oak. ] 1. A thicket of low evergreen oaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chaparral cock; fem.
Chaparral hen (Zool.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killer. It is the state bird of New Mexico. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. a flat pancakelike bread cooked on a griddle, originating in India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Chap to cheapen. ] Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a churchman's cope, a cover, a chape, fr. L. cappa. See Cap. ] 1. The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The transverse guard of a sword or dagger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chapeux [ F., fr. OF. chapel hat. See Chaplet. ] 1. A hat or covering for the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Chapeau bras ety>[ F. chapeau hat + bras arm ], a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. or a. Furnished with a chape or chapes. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chapele, F. chapelle, fr. LL. capella, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of cappa, capa, cloak, cape, cope; also, a covering for the head. The chapel where St. Martin's cloak was preserved as a precious relic, itself came to be called capella, whence the name was applied to similar paces of worship, and the guardian of this cloak was called capellanus, or chaplain. See Cap, and cf. Chaplain., Chaplet. ] 1. A subordinate place of worship; as, (a) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial; (b) a small building attached to a church; (c) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Print.) (a) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of workmen in a printing office. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chapel of ease. (a) A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) --
Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. --
To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. --
To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a chape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Chaplet. ] 1. A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [ Written also chaplet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chapellanies [ Cf. E. chapellenie, LL. capellania. See Chaplain. ] A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. chapelerie. ] The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chaperon. See Chape, Cape, Cap. ] 1. A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chaperoned p. pr. & vb. n. Chaperoning. ] [ Cf. F. chaperonner, fr. chaperon. ] To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chapitel, F. chapiteau, from L. capitellum, dim. of caput head. Cf. Capital, Chapter. ] 1. (Arch.) A capital [ Obs. ] See Chapital. Ex. xxxvi. 38. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Old Eng. Law) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chapelain, fr. LL. capellanus, fr. capella. See Chapel. ] 1. An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chaplaincies The office, position, or station of a chaplain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The office or business of a chaplain. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [ R. ] “Yellow, chapless skulls.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chapleted. ] To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chapelet, dim. of OF. chapel hat, garland, dim. fr. LL. cappa. See Cap, and cf. Chapelet, Chapeau. ] 1. A garland or wreath to be worn on the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Man.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Founding) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small chapel or shrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. provided with a chaplet; wearing a chaplet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Chapmen [ AS. ceápman; ceáp trade + man man; akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to cheapen, and see Cheap. ] 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A peddler; a hawker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. “Open your chaps again.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Short for Chaparajos. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter. ] 1. A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.(b) A community of canons or canonesses.(c) A bishop's council.(d) A business meeting of any religious community. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A chapter house. [ R. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A decretal epistle. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A location or compartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chapter head, or
Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. --
Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. --
The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chapiter. ] (Arch.) An impost. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intervening or inserted chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Pettychaps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. dial. (Swiss), waste, impurity. ] A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having a limber tongue. [ R. ] “A supple-chapped flatterer.” Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + chaplain. ] To remove from a chaplaincy. [ 1913 Webster ]