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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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... He had made no preparation to receive the bride and bridegroom in their home. He was just the cattleman nothing could change him from. His gray flannel shirt was agape over his sunburned chest. His leather chapps creaked as he moved, his vicious spurs clanked. Then, too, the curling iron-gray hair of his bared head was innocent of all extra combing. With Nan it was different. She had striven to rid herself of every sign of the prairie to which she belonged. She was dressed ...
— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum
... whom were clinging to one of the lorcha's boats. It kept turning over and over, and they had to go with it each time. Captain B—— hung to the prow, so his circuit was not so wide as that of the others, but his body—arms, legs, and chest—was literally ploughed by the rough usage. Once he let go and lost the prow as it came up, and the fright of this was enough to strengthen his hold. They were in the water clinging to this all the rest of the ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... one window, has just space to crowd in a bed, a chest of drawers, and three small chairs. The prospect from the window, is extremely pretty, and all IS new and clean. So I doubt not being very comfortable, as I am senza Cerbera,(278)—though having no maid is a real evil ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay
... the baggage man yielded, whereupon I gave him $75 to bind the bargain and handed the stewardess $25 so as to assure her support. Still, it would not do to meddle with the chest until the liner was steaming into port, for were Schmidt to discover that his luggage had been tampered with and the dispatch abstracted, since by the process of elimination I concluded it must be there, ...
— The Secrets of the German War Office • Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
... it is difficult to believe that the fore-legs are not longer than the hind-legs. They are not so, however, for the greater apparent length results from the remarkable depth of the chest, the great length of the processes of the anterior dorsal vertebrae, and the corresponding length and position of the shoulder blade, which is relatively the longest and narrowest of all mammalia. In the simple walk the neck ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various


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