Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Chap \Chap\ (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chapped}
(ch[a^]pt or ch[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chapping}.] [See
{Chop} to cut.]
1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause
the skin of to crack or become rough.
Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack
the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
--Blackmore.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly.
2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]
Source : WordNet®
chapped
See {chap}
chap
v : crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather"
[also: {chapping}, {chapped}]
chap
n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: {fellow}, {feller},
{lad}, {gent}, {fella}, {blighter}, {cuss}]
2: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: {crevice}, {cranny},
{crack}, {fissure}]
3: a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
4: (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat;
joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over
trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
[also: {chapping}, {chapped}]
chapped
adj : used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure;
"chapped lips" [syn: {cracked}, {roughened}]