Part 1799

<hw>Chap"book`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Chap</er> to cheapen.]</ety> <def>Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.</def>

<h1>Chape</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Chape</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., a churchman's cope, a cover, a chape, fr. L. <ets>cappa</ets>. See <er>Cap</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Chapeau</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Cha`peau"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Chapeux</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[F., fr. OF. <ets>chapel</ets> hat. See <er>Chaplet</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>hat or covering for the head.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>A cap of maintenance. See <er>Maintenance</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Chapeau bras</col> <tt>(<?/)</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>chapeau<ets> hat + <ets>bras<ets> arm]</ety>, <cd>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 <i>chapeau bras<i> is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chaped</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Chaped</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. &or; a.</tt> <def>Furnished with a chape or chapes.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Chapel</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Chap"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>chapele</ets>, F. <ets>chapelle</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>capella</ets>, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of <ets>cappa</ets>, <ets>capa</ets>, 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 <ets>capella</ets>, whence the name was applied to similar paces of worship, and the guardian of this cloak was called <ets>capellanus</ets>, or chaplain. See <er>Cap</er>, and cf. <er>Chaplain</er>., <er>Chaplet</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A subordinate place of worship</def>; as, <sd>(a)</sd> <def>a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial</def>; <sd>(b)</sd> <def>a small building attached to a church</def>; <sd>(c)</sd> <def>a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.</def>

<note>&hand; In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, <i>chapels</i> are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles.</note>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A place of worship not connected with a church; <as>as, the <ex>chapel</ex> of a palace, hospital, or prison</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An association of workmen in a printing office.</def>

<cs><col>Chapel of ease</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>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.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A privy.</cd> <fld>(Law)</fld> -- <col>Chapel master</col></mcol>, <cd>a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.</cd> -- <col>To build a chapel</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to chapel a ship. See <er>Chapel</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, 2.</cd> -- <col>To hold a chapel</col>, <cd>to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chapel</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Chap"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Chapeless</h1> <Xpage=240>

<hw>Chape"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without a chape.</def>