Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chapped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
chapped
adj : used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure;
"chapped lips" [syn: {cracked}, {roughened}]
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