Definition of chap

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Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings..

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Capitulary :: Capitulary (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular.
Chapfallen :: Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen..
Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
Chapiter :: Chapiter (n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..
Chaplaincy :: Chaplaincy (n.) The office, position, or station of a chaplain..
Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
Chapellanies :: Chapellanies (pl. ) of Chapellan.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.
Chapiter :: Chapiter (n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles..
Chapbook :: Chapbook (n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book..
Chaperoning :: Chaperoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chapero.
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..
Matronize :: Matronize (v. t.) To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly..
Chapeau :: Chapeau (n.) A hat or covering for the head.
Capitular :: Capitular (a.) Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary.
Pigpecker :: Pigpecker (n.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, / Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps..
Chapel :: 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..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council..
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