CHAPEL

A subordinate place of worship; as,

a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;

a small building attached to a church;

a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

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

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

A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

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

An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease.

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.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

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.