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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.

drawer n.

1.

One who, or that which, draws; as:

(a)

One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.

(b)

One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

(c)

(Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; the correlative of drawee.

2.

That which is drawn; as:

(a)

A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

(b)

pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

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Etymology of 'Chest of drawers'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chest of drawers" Quotes from Famous Books

... lighted below from the street, higher up by borrowed lights, and at the top by a skylight. There were forty furnished rooms—furnished as students' rooms are! What does youth demand more than was here supplied? A bed, a few chairs, a chest of drawers, a looking-glass, and a table. As soon as the sky is blue the student opens ...

— Z. Marcas • Honore de Balzac

... retired into a corner of the shop, taking refuge behind a chest of drawers, and held a long whispered conversation with Tottie, after which she came forth and asked the shopman if married ladies ever used boodwars where they might sit and think of ...

— Shifting Winds - A Tough Yarn • R.M. Ballantyne

... that the sisters' letters were very commonplace on the surface. And though Madam Liberality cried when Darling wrote, "Have swallows built in the summer-house this year? Have you put my old doll's chest of drawers back in its place since the room was papered? What colour is the paper?"—the Major only said that stuff like that was hardly worth the postage to England. And when Madam Liberality wrote, "The clump of daffodils in your old bed was enormous this spring. I have not ...

— A Great Emergency and Other Tales - A Great Emergency; A Very Ill-Tempered Family; Our Field; Madam Liberality • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

... chest of drawers, and unwrapping it from swaddling-clothes, she withdrew what at best had been ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

... in the upper drawer of my cabinet," (so Daisy called a small chest of drawers which held her varieties) "and the cathedral stands on the top, under the glass ...

— Melbourne House, Volume 2 • Susan Warner

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