Part 1798

<hw>Chap</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Chapped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Chapping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Chop</er> to cut.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.</def>

<blockquote>Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and <b>chap</b> the russet plain. <i>Blackmore.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nor winter's blast <b>chap</b> her fair face. <i>Lyly.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strike; to beat.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

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<hw>Chap</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To crack or open in slits; <as>as, the earth <ex>chaps</ex>; the hands <ex>chap</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To strike; to knock; to rap.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

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<hw>Chap</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Chap</er>, <ets>v. t. & i.</ets>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A division; a breach, as in a party.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Many clefts and <b>chaps</b> in our council board. <i>T. Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A blow; a rap.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

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<hw>Chap</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>chaft</ets>; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel <ets>kjaptr</ets> jaw, Sw. <ets>K\'84ft</ets>, D. <ets>ki\'91ft</ets>; akin to G. <ets>kiefer</ets>, and E. <ets>jowl</ets>. Cf. <er>Chops</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.</def>

<blockquote>His <b>chaps</b> were all besmeared with crimson blood. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the <b>chaps</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.</def>

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<hw>Chap</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. abbreviated fr. <ets>chapman</ets>, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. <ets>ki\'91ft</ets> jaw, person, E. <ets>chap</ets> jaw.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A buyer; a chapman.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If you want to sell, here is your <b>chap</b>. <i>Steele.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

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<hw>Chap</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cheapen</er>.]</ety> <def>To bargain; to buy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Cha`par*ral"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp., fr. <ets>chaparro</ets> an evergeen oak.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A thicket of low evergreen oaks.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Chaparral cock</col>; <i>fem</i>. <col>Chaparral hen</col></mcol> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a bird of the cuckoo family (<spn>Geococcyx Californianus</spn>), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also <altname>road runner</altname>, <altname>ground cuckoo</altname>, <altname>churea</altname>, and <altname>snake killer</altname><--; <i>it is the state bird of New Mexico -->.</cd></cs>

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