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The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choirmaster. [Written also kepellmeister.]

A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. Sir W. Scott.

An act passed in a chapter.

In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter. Sterne.

The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.…

A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]

The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying. Nine days employed in carriage. Chapman.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

Of or pertaining to the cerris. Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

A chapel or altar so endowed. Cowell.

wheat. [Obs.] Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman.

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.

g the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

ing; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.] The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. Chapman.

To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.