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Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [R.] "Yellow, chapless skulls." Shak.

of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

An impost. [Obs.]

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

An intervening or inserted chapter.

See Pettychaps.

Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).

A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk.

Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.

To remove from a chaplaincy.

The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

An accepter. Chapman.

To cite; to summon. [Obs.] Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians. Chapman.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.