Index of English words, starting with "ch"

(1) - Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
(2) - Chapel (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
(3) - Chapel (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
(4) - Chapel (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
(5) - Chapel (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
(6) - Chapel (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
(7) - Chapel (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
(8) - Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
(9) - Chapel (n.) a small building attached to a church
(10) - Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
(11) - Chapel (n.) A subordinate place of worship

(1) - Chaperon (v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.
(2) - Chaperon (n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
(3) - Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
(4) - Chaperon (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

(1) - Chaperonage (n.) Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

(1) - Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.