“chapter” – English explanatory dictionary

noun 1. a division of a book ○ The first chapter is rather slow, but after that the story gets exciting. ○ Don’t tell me how it finishes – I’m only up to chapter three. [ verse 2. a group of priests or monks who run a cathedral or monastery

n. [OF. chapitre, F. chapitre, fr. L. capitulum, dim. of caput head, the chief person or thing, the principal division of a writing, chapter. See Chief, and cf, Chapiter.]
1. A division of a book or treatise; as Genesis has fifty chapters.
2. (Eccl.) (a) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.(b) A community of canons or canonesses.(c) A bishop’s council.(d) A business meeting of any religious community.
3. An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.
4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
5. A chapter house. [R.] Burrill.
6. A decretal epistle. Ayliffe.
7. A location or compartment. “In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
Shak.” Chapter head, or Chapter heading, that which stands at the head of a chapter, as a title. — Chapter house, a house or room where a chapter meets, esp. a cathedral chapter. — The chapter of accidents, chance. Marryat.

v. t. 1. To divide into chapters, as a book. Fuller.
2. To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden.