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chapel

chapel is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
  2. 2.In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  3. 3.A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  4. 4.(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. 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.
  5. 5.To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
  6. 6.(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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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