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a. [ Pref. a- not + L. pellis skin. ] Destitute of skin. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Cf. F. capelan, caplan. ] (Zool.) Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonidæ, now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod. [ Written also capelan and caplin. ] [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

☞ This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina. However the anchovy used as a food is a different fish. Fisheries of U. S. (1884). [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

‖n. [ F., fr. LL. capella. See Chapel. ] (Med.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a little goat, dim. of caper a goat. ] (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chaplain. ] The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capelet. ] (Far.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. capelle chapel, private band of a prince + meister a master. ] The musical director in a royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. [ Written also kapellmeister. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Icel. kapall; cf. L. caballus. ] A horse; a nag. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a catapult. [ 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 ]

‖ [ Pg., serpent of the hood. ] (Zool.) The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) See Capellmeister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of lap a fold. ] That part of a garment which is turned back; specifically, the lap, or fold, of the front of a coat in continuation of collar. [ Written also lappel and lapelle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with lapels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Destitute of a scape. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality or state of being shapely. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Shapelier superl. Shapeliest. ] 1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn,
The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the shapely column stood. Couper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fit; suitable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaply for to be an alderman. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. So named after John Bodaeus a Stapel, a physician of Amsterdam. ] (Bot.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring. [ 1913 Webster ]