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Mutually repellent. De Quincey.

A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove.

See Capellmeister.

Furnished with lapels.

See Misspell, Misspend, etc.

To spell incorrectly.

A wrong spelling.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.

A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.

The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.

Driving back; able or tending to repel.

One who, or that which, repels.

To spell again.

Rocky. [Obs.] "This rupellary nidary." Evelyn.

The quality or state of being self-repelling.

up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling.

Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.

The qualiti or state of being imperfectly transparent.

To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.