chape 
sort of composition which is applied upon the 
wax, and sometimes of an outer covering or 
jacket of plaster in which the pieces of the 
earthen mold are held together. 4. A barrel 
containing another barrel which holds gun- 
powder. Willie/in, Mil. Diet. 5. That part of 
an object by which it is attached to something 
else, as the sliding loop on a belt to which a 
bayonet-scabbard is secured, or the back-piece 
by which a buckle is fixed to a strap or a 
garment. 6. The end of a bridle-rein where 
it is buckled to the bit. 7t. Among hunters, 
t lie tip of a fox's tail. E. Phillips, 1706. 
chapet (chap), r. t. ; pret. and pp. chapcd, ppr. 
flinping. [< ME. cluipen; from the noun.] To 
furnish with chapes. 
Here knyfes were i-cliaped nat with bras. 
Chaucer, Gen. I'rol. to C. T., 1. 3(iti. 
chapeau (sha-po'), w.; pi. clutpeaiix (-poz'). 
[F., < OF. chapel = Pr. capel = Sp. capelo = Pg. 
thapeo = It. cappello, < ML. capellus, a head- 
dress, hat, dim. of capa, cuppa, a hood : see cap 1 , 
cape 1 , cope 1 . Cf. cliapel, chaplet 1 .] A hat: used 
in English to denote a plumed hat forming part 
of an official costume or uniform. Specifically, 
in the United States army, a military hat pointed in front 
and behind, which may be folded flat and carried under 
the arm, worn by officers of the staff corps and depart- 
ments. Chapeau bras, a hat meant to be carried under 
the arm, and commonly so carried in the eighteenth cen- 
tury, when first introduced, at the time that large and 
warm wigs were in use. Chapeau de poll, a beaver hat. 
It was a chapean de poil [a fur hat], a mark of some dis- 
tinction in those days, and which gave name to Rubens's 
famous picture, now in Sir Robert Peel's collection, of a 
lady in a beaver hat, or " chapeau de poil." This having 
been corrupted into chapeau de paille [a straw hat] has led 
to much ignorant conjecture. Pepys, Diary, I. 230, note. 
924 
Chapeau Montaubyn. (a) A certain kind of hat worn in 
the sixteenth century. (6) A steel ( 
vizor, worn in the fifteenth ce: 
variety of the chapel-de-fer. 
1 cap or helmet, without 
vizor, worn in the fifteenth century. It was undoubtedly a 
chaped (chapd), a. In her., same as chappt. 
chapel (chap'el), n. [< ME. chapete, chapelle, 
< OF. chapele, capele, F. chapelle = Pr. capella = 
Sp. ca/iilla = Pg. capella = It. capella = D. kapel 
= OHG. chapella, MHG. kapelle, kappetle, G. 
Icapellf = Dan. kapel = S w. kapett = leel. kapella, 
< ML. capella, a chapel, sanctuary for relics, 
canopy, hood (fern. ; cf . capellus, masc., a hood : 
see chapeau), dim. of capa, cappa, a hood, cope 
(> E. cap 1 , cape 1 , cope 1 ). The particular sense 
' chapel ' of ML. captJla is said to be an exten- 
sion of the sense ' canopy,' referring to the can- 
opy or covering of the altar when mass was 
said; traditionally, capella was the sanctuary 
in which was preserved the capjia or hat of St. 
Martin. Hence ult. chaplain.] 1. A subordi- 
nate place of worship forming an addition to or 
Choir Chapel, nth cenrury.- 
(FromViollet-le-Duc's ' 
Cathedral of Mantes, France. 
Diet, de P Architecture." ) 
a part of a large church or a cathedral, but sep- 
arately dedicated, and devoted to special ser- 
vices. A chapel is often a recess with an altar in an aisle 
of a church, usually dedicated to the Virgin or to some 
saint : as, the Lady chapel ; St. Cuthbert's chapel, etc. See 
also cut under cathedral. 
And ffyrst at the procedyng owt of the seyd Chapell of 
ower blyssyd lady, They Sliewyd on to vs that ther the 
bye Auter ys of the same Chapell, ys the very self place 
wher our Savyor Crist aftyr hys Resurreccion ffyrst ap- 
peryd vnto hys blyssyd mother, And seyd, Salve Sancta 
Parens. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 41. 
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chape,/. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., iii. 4. 
2. A separate building subsidiary to a parish 
church: as, a parochial chape/; a free chapd. 
3. A small independent church-edifice de- 
voted to special services. 
There ben many Oratories, Chapellea, and Heremytages, 
where Herumytes weren wont to duelle. 
Mni/ilrrilli; Travels, p. '.IS. 
4. A place of worship connected with a royal 
palace, a private house, or a corporation, as a 
university or college. 5. In Scotland and 
Ireland, any Roman Catholic church or place 
of worship. 6. An Anglican church, usually 
small, anywhere on the continent of Europe. 
7. A place of worship used by non-conformists 
in England; a meeting-house. [Eng.] 8. In 
printing: (a\) A printing-house; a printers' 
workshop: said to be so designated because 
printing was first carried on in England, by 
Caxton, in a chapel attached to Westminster 
Abbey. 
Every Printing-house is by custom of time out of mind 
called a Chapel ; and all the workmen that belong to 
it are members of the Chapel ; and the oldest freeman is 
father of the Chapel. I suppose the style was originally 
conferred upon it by the courtesy of some great church- 
man or men, doubtless when chapels were in more venera- 
tion. J. Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, p. 356. 
(6) The collective body of journeymen printers 
in a printing-house. In Great Britain it has been 
customary for the chapel to be permanently organized, 
under the presidency of the " father of the chapel," for 
mutual benefit, the regulation of work, the maintenance 
of order, etc. The chapel of a large establishment in the 
United States is also sometimes organized, under a chair- 
man, for similar purposes. 
9. A choir of singers or an orchestra attached 
to a nobleman's or ecclesiastic's establishment 
or a prince's court. 
When the bishope is come thedir, his chapell there to 
syuge, and the bishope to geve them his blissyng, and 
then he and all his chapell to be serued there with brede 
and wyne. English Gild* (E. E. T. S.), p. 422. 
Apsldal Chapel. See apsidal. Chapel Of ease, in Eng- 
land and Scotland, a subordinate church established for 
the ease and accommodation of those parishioners who 
live too far away to be able to attend the parish church : 
in Scotland commonly called a quoad mem church. See 
parish. 
The " Garden " is the most elaborate part of the mosque. 
Little can be said in its praise by day, when it bears the 
same relation to a second-rate church in Rome as an Eng- 
lish chapel-of-ease to Westminster Abbey. 
S. F. Burton, El-Medinah and Meccah, p. 201. 
Chapel royal, a place of worship specially designated in 
connection with the court of a Christian monarch ; a chapel 
attached to a royal palace, as at St. James's Palace and at 
Windsor in England. Chapel-text, a type like church- 
text in general appearance, but with more ttoriation in the 
capital letters. Dean of the chapel royal. See dean. 
Free Chapel, in England, a chapel founded by the king 
and not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary. The 
king may also grant license to a subject to found such a 
chapel. Gentleman of the chapel royal See gentle- 
man. Mission chapel, a place for missionary services, 
either in a foreign country or at home, in the latter case 
often established and maintained by a particular church 
for the supply of a destitute part of a city. To call a 
Chapel, to summon a meeting of the journeymen printers 
of a particular printing-house. See above, 8 (6). 
chapel (chap'el), v . t. ; pret. and pp. chapeled or 
chapellcd, ppr. chapeling or chapelling. [< chap- 
el, n."] 1. To deposit or bury in a chapel ; en- 
shrine. [Bare.] 
Give us the bones 
Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them. 
Fletcher (and another). Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 1. 
2. Naut., to turn (a ship) completely about in a 
light breeze of wind, when close-hauled, so that 
she will lie the same way as before. 
chapel-cart (chap'el-kart), n. An abbrevia- 
tion of Whitechapel cart (which see, under car*). 
chapel-clerk (chap'el-klerk), . In certain col- 
leges, an official who sees that the proper les- 
sons from the Bible are read each day in the 
chapel, and that they are read by the duly ap- 
pointed students. In some colleges he marks 
each day upon a list the names of those who 
attend. 
chapel-de-fer (sha-pel'de-fer'), n. [F. : chapel, 
now chapeau, a cap; de, of; J'er, < L. ferrum, 
iron : see chapeau and ferrum.] In medieval 
times (a) An iron skull-cap : sometimes popu- 
larly called chuplet. See coif, 3, and secret, 
(b) A helmet having nearly the form of an or- 
dinary hat, that is, having a brim surrounding 
a more or less well-defined crown, it was worn 
over a coif of mail, or (in the fifteenth century) was ad- 
justed to an elaborate couvre-nuque and gorgerin, or even 
a beaver of steel, so that the head was covered as com- 
pletely with forged iron as in the vizored basinet or the 
armet. 
chapeless (chap'les), a. [< chape + -less.] 
Without a chape : said of a scabbard worn out 
and battered, exposing the point of the sword. 
An old rusty sword, . . . with a broken hilt, and chap?- 
lest. Shak., T. of the S., iii. a. 
chapfallen 
chapelet (chap'el-et), n. [< F. cJtapelet, a stirrup- 
leather, a chaplet : see cliaplet 1 .] 1. A pair of 
stirrup-leathers, with stirrups, joined at the top 
in a sort of leather buckle, by which they are 
made fast to the pommel of the saddle. 2. In 
Itydraul. engiii., a dredging or water-raising 
machine, consisting of a chain provided with 
buckets or with pallets traversing in a trough. 
3. A metallic chuck or bonnet for holding 
one end of a cannon in the turning-lathe. 4. 
In founding, a device for holding the core of a 
mold in position; a grain; specifically, a mass 
of wrought-iron with projecting arms, used to 
center the core-barrel in making gun-castings, 
with the muzzle downward, when the Rodman 
method of cooling is employed. 
Also chaplet, chapellet. 
chapeline (chap'el-in), n. Same as capeline. 
chapellage (chap/el-aj), . [< chapel + -age] 
The precincts or immediate vicinity of a chapel. 
chapellany (chap'el-a-ni), n. ; pi. chapellanies 
(-nisi). [<F. chapelle>iie=:Sp. capellania = Pg. 
capellania, < ML. capellania, chaplaincy, < ca- 
pellamis, chaplain: see chaplain.] A chapel 
subject to a more important church ; an eccle- 
siastical foundation subordinate to some other. 
Ayliffe. 
chapellet (chap'el-et), n. See ehapelH. 
chapel-master (chap 'el- mas "ter), n. [Lit. 
trans, of Gr. kapellmeister.] Same as kapell- 
meister. 
chapelry (chap'el-ri), .; pi. chapelries (-riz). 
[< chapel + -ry, after OF. capelerie, < ML. ca- 
pellaria, < capella, a chapel: see chapel] The 
nominal or legal territorial district assigned to 
a chapel dependent on a mother church; the 
jurisdiction or bounds of a chapel. 
His abode 
In a dependent chapelry that lies 
Behind yon hill, a poor and rugged wild. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 
In 1650, the chapelry of Newchurch alone contained 
300 families, and was then declared by the Inquisition fit 
to become a parish. Raines, Hist. Lancashire, II. 47. 
chaperon (shap'e-ron), . [P., aug. of chape, 
a hood: see chape.] 1. A hood: a name given 
to hoods of various shapes at different times. 
My factors' wives 
Wear chaperons of velvet. 
Webster, Devil's Law-Case, i. 1. 
The Executioner stands by, clad in a close dark gar- 
ment, his head and face cover'd with a Chaperon, out of 
which there are but two holes to look thro'. 
Howett, Letters, I. v. 42. 
Specifically 2. A hood or cap worn by the 
Knights of the Garter when in full dress. Cam- 
den. 3. A small shield containing crests, ini- 
tials, etc., formerly placed on the foreheads of 
horses which drew the hearse in pompous fu- 
nerals. Alsowrittenchaperonne. 4. Formerly, 
one who attended a lady to public places as a 
guide or protector ; a duenna ; now, more espe- 
cially, a married woman who, inaccordance with 
the rules of etiquette, accompanies a young un- 
married woman to public places or social en- 
tertainments. 
Our heroine's entree into life could not take place till 
after three or four days had been spent in learning what 
was mostly worn, and her chaperon was provided with a 
dress of the newest fashion. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 7. 
5. In entoin., the clypeus of the head of an in- 
sect; the part which supports the labrum or 
upper lip; the nasus; the epistoma. 
The denomination of chaperon being equivocal, I have 
changed it to epistoma ; it supports the labrum. 
Latreille, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom(trans., ed. 1849), p. 473. 
chaperon (shap'e-ron), r. *. [< chaperon, n] To 
attend (an unmarried girl or woman) in public : 
said of an older woman or a married woman. 
Fortunately Lady Bell Finlay, whom I had promised to 
chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Mrs. H. More. 
chaperonage (shap'e-ron-aj), n. [< chaperon + 
-age.] The protection or countenance of a 
chaperon. 
Under the unrivalled chaperoiwye of the Countess, they 
had played their popular parts without a single blunder. 
Dixraeli, Young Duke, i. 2. 
chaperonne (shap'e-ron), n. [Fern, form of 
rliii/teroii, q. v.] Same as chaperon, 3. 
chaperoont, Same as chaperon, 1. 
chapewet, Same as chapeau, chapel-de-fer. 
chapfallen, chopfallen (chop 'fain), a. [< 
chapt, = chop s , + fallen, pp. of fall.] Having 
the lower chap or jaw depressed ; hence, de- 
jected ; dispirited ; silenced ; chagrined. 
Whate'er they seem, or howsoe'er they carry it, 
Till they be chap-fain, and their tongues at peace, 
Xail'd in their coffins sure. I'll ne'er believe 'eui. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iv. 3. 
