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Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Admitting no return. Chapman.

the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not. Chapman.

A row. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A rew of sundry colored stones." Chapman.

To make ridiculous; to ridicule. [Obs.] Chapman.

To raffle. [Obs.] Chapman.

e wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks. "Rigging and rifling all ways." Chapman.

ff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. Chapman. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser.

A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections. Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night. Jer. Taylor.

Royal. [Obs.] Chapman.

A chance. [Obs.] Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. Chapman.

gret extremely; to grieve for or over. Chaucer. I wept to see, and rued it from my heart. Chapmen. Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Milton.

Ruffianly. [Obs.] Chapman.

To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. Chapman To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. [Obs.] "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman.

is distinction from standing rigging. -- Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.

In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.

Bent on plunder. [Obs.] Chapman.

A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.

pline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.