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

Without a chape.

A pair of Straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The territorial disrict legally assigned to a chapel.

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

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.

A chapel for dissenters. [Eng.]

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

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

A chapel or altar so endowed. Cowell.

An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.

A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

specially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

se, free from pain, trouble, or anxiety. "His soul shall dwell at ease." Ps. xxv. 12. -- Chapel of ease. See under Chapel. -- Ill at ease, not at ease, disquieted; suffering; anxious. -- To stand at ease (Mil.), to stand in a comfortable attitude in one's place in the ranks. -- With ease, easily; without much effor…

To build; to construct. [Archaic] There was a holy chapel edified. Spenser.

To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.

f vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. -- Fan window. Same as Fan light (above).

valence, of an atom or radical. -- Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg. -- Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] Bouvier. -- Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or stat…