Chapel

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun a small building attached to a church.

II. Chapel ·noun An association of workmen in a printing office.

III. Chapel ·noun A subordinate place of Worship.

IV. Chapel ·noun a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.

V. Chapel ·vt To deposit or inter in a chapel; to Enshrine.

VI. Chapel ·noun a room or recess in a church, containing an Altar.

VII. Chapel ·noun A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

VIII. Chapel ·noun In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.

IX. Chapel ·noun A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

X. Chapel ·noun A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

XI. Chapel ·vt 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.

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