Vocabulary : Chapbook to Chapelry
Chapbook : Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.Chape : 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. ;; The transverse guard of a sword or dagger. ;; The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.
Chapeau : A hat or covering for the head. ;; A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
Chaped : Furnished with a chape or chapes.
Chapel : A subordinate place of worship ;; a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial ;; a small building attached to a church ;; a room or recess in a church, containing an altar. ;; A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison. ;; In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse. ;; A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. ;; A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. ;; An association of workmen in a printing office. ;; To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. ;; 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.
