chapped

UK /t͡ʃæpt/ US /t͡ʃæpt/
adj 2

Definitions

adj

1

Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]

[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

2

Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.

This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.

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