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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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"Chest of drawers" Quotes from Famous Books

... or eight couples of shell and metal are sawn together, whereas two was the number in the fine period. This saves money. A new Boulle bed, secretary, or chest of drawers should cost 15 to 20,000 francs. You may easily get one for 2000 made of rubbish. An honest chest of drawers with tolerable mountings is worth 1500 francs. In gelatine tortoiseshell and brass or zinc of the future 100 is the price.... The mode still practised ...

— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson

... a chest of drawers, and unwrapping it from swaddling-clothes, she withdrew what at best had been a sorry sort of fiddle. Cracked of back and solitary of string it was as if her trembling arms, raising it above her head, would make of themselves and ...

— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various

... pile, intimately connected with all the great epochs of our local and national history, I have thought it but right to give some farther particulars concerning it. Fortunately, in rummaging a ponderous Dutch chest of drawers, which serves as the archives of the Roost, and in which are preserved many inedited manuscripts of Mr. KNICKERBOCKER, together with the precious records of New-Amsterdam, brought hither by Wolfert Acker at the downfall of the Dutch dynasty, as has been already mentioned, I found ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... blinds. In the afternoon a long van arrived with a load of furniture; and we children who had gathered to watch were rewarded by a sensation when the van started by disgorging an artist's lay-figure, followed by a suit of armour. From these to a mahogany chest of drawers with brass handles was a sad drop, and we never regained the high romance of those first few minutes; but the furniture was undeniably handsome, and when Miss Bracy stepped out and offered us sixpence apiece ...

— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... in this mood that she entered the little apartment where Bott held what he called his "Intermundane Seances." The room was small and stuffy. A simulacrum of a chest of drawers in one corner was really Bott's bed, where the seer reposed at night, and which, tilted up against the wall during the day, contained the rank bedclothes, long innocent of the wash-tub. There were a dozen or so ...

— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

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