Chapel
- v. t. 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.
- n. A subordinate place of worship
- n. a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
- n. a small building attached to a church
- n. a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
- n. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
- n. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
- n. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- n. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
- n. An association of workmen in a printing office.
- 1v. t. 1 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.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.