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Chest   /tʃɛst/   Listen
noun
Chest  n.  
1.
A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. "Heaps of money crowded in the chest."
2.
A coffin. (Obs.) "He is now dead and mailed in his cheste."
3.
The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
4.
(Com.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
5.
(Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
Bomb chest, See under Bomb.
Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.


Chest  n.  Strife; contention; controversy. (Obs.)


verb
Chest  v. i.  (past & past part. chested)  
1.
To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
2.
To place in a coffin. (Obs.) "He dieth and is chested."





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"Chest" Quotes from Famous Books



... slipped from me, and my head fell forward on my chest. I think he found a certain satisfaction ...
— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells
... strikingly like Henry II. of England that folks' tongues wagged freely about it, we may picture him as a young man of moderate height, rather large in the brow, with red brown hair, bright grey eyes, large chest, and generally of an athletic build and carriage. He had a face which easily flushed and told both of anger and a lively sense ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson
... the fibers and reducing them to extreme fineness. The refining engines are, however, used only in the manufacture of certain grades of paper. The pulp is next taken from the beater or refining engine, as the case may be, to what is called a "stuff-chest," an inclosed vat partly filled with water, in which a contrivance for shaking and shifting, properly called an "agitator," keeps ...
— A Book of Exposition • Homer Heath Nugent
... chimney and very little smoke goes up, we are shown into the "best room," the furniture of which consists of a bed, a pine table and benches. In the adjoining apartment are two beds, the gayly-painted chest in which our hostess brought home her bridal outfit, and another table; while in both rooms the knives and forks are stuck in the chinks of the beams over the benches—a convenient arrangement by which one has only to stretch up an arm and take down from the ceiling whatever ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... to raise its citizens. West Hampstead going into battle with its own banner. It shall be done. I, the King, have said it." And, hastily presenting the boy with half a crown, remarking, "For the war-chest of Notting Hill," he ran violently home at such a rate of speed that crowds followed him for miles. On reaching his study, he ordered a cup of coffee, and plunged into profound meditation upon the project. At length he called his favourite Equerry, Captain Bowler, ...
— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton


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