a subordinate place of worship-a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial-a small building attached to a church-a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.-a place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.-in england, a place of worship used by dissenters from the established church; a meetinghouse.-a choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.-a printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in england in a chapel near westminster abbey.-an association of workmen in a printing office.-to deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.-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.