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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



... founded by Gonzalvo of Cordova, I went to the adjoining Church and Hospital of San Juan de Dios. A fat priest, washing his hands in the sacristy, sent a boy to show me the Chapel of San Juan, and the relics. The remains of the Saint rest in a silver chest, standing in the centre of a richly-adorned chapel. Among the relics is a thorn from the crown of Christ, which, as any botanist may see, must have grown on a different plant from the other thorn they show at Seville; and neither kind is found in Palestine. ...
— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor
... a coal His eyeball—like a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide the enormous whale ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... with low, spacious, shapely rooms, and walls so thick that the heat of summer never dried them to the heart. At the approach of the rainy season a deathly chill and a graveyard smell began to hang about the lower floors; and diseases of the chest are common and fatal among house-keeping people ...
— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson
... arch of sky visible through the curving panels of the dome, thinking the turgid thoughts that always came when action was near. His chest was full of the familiar weakness—not fear exactly, but a tight, helpless feeling that grew and ...
— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande
... church together amidst the pealing of the organ. In the middle of the church, before the altar, was erected a large red cross, hung with a silken banner which bore the Papal arms. Before the cross was placed a large iron chest to receive the money; specimens of these chests are still shown in many places. Daily, by sermons, hymns, processions round the cross, and other means of attraction, the people were invited and urged to embrace this incomparable offer of salvation. It was arranged that auricular ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin


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