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

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

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 ]

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

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

☞ 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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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 ]

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

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

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 ]

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 ]

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