Chap·el n.
 1. A subordinate place of worship; as, (a) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial; (b) a small building attached to a church; (c) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
 Note: ☞ In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles.
 2. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
 3. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
 4. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
 5. Print. (a) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of workmen in a printing office.
 Chapel of ease. (a) A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. Law
 Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
 To build a chapel Naut., to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2.
 To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.


 Ease n.
 1. Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. [Obs.]
 They him besought
 Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny.   --Chaucer.
 2. Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
    Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease.   --Herbert.
    Give yourself ease from the fatigue of watching.   --Swift.
 (b) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
    Among these nations shalt thou find no ease.   --Deut. xxviii. 65.
    Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.   --Luke xii. 19.
 (c) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
    True ease in writing comes from art, not chance.   --Pope.
 Whate'er he did was done with so much ease,
 In him alone 't was natural to please.   --Dryden.
 At ease, 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 effort.
 Syn: -- Rest; quiet; repose; comfortableness; tranquillity; facility; easiness; readiness.