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Chest Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Chest?
[n] box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy
[n] furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [n] the part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates Synonyms | Synonyms for Chest: bureau | chest of drawers | dresser | pectus | thorax Related Terms | Find terms related to Chest: archives | armory | arsenal | attic | bag | bank | basement | bay | bin | bonded warehouse | boobs | bookcase | bosom | box | breast | breasts | brisket | bunker | bursary | bust | buttery | caddy | cargo dock | case | cash register | cashbox | casket | cellar | closet | coffer | coin box | conservatory | crate | crib | crop | cupboard | depository | depot | dock | drawer | dug | dump | exchequer | fisc | Fort Knox | glory hole | godown | gold depository | hold | hutch | knockers | library | locker | lumber room | lumberyard | magasin | magazine | mama | mamelon | mamelonation | mammary gland | mammilla | mammillation | money chest | nenes | nipple | pap | papilla | penny bank | pigeon breast | piggy bank | pork barrel | public crib | public till | public treasury | public trough | rack | repertory | repository | reservoir | rick | safe | safe-deposit box | shelf | stack | stack room | stock room | storage | store | storehouse | storeroom | strong room | strongbox | subtreasury | supply base | supply depot | tank | teat | thorax | till | tit | tits | titties | titty | treasure house | treasure room | treasure-house | treasury | trunk | udder | vat | vault | warehouse | wine cellar See Also | ammunition chest | area of cardiac dullness | ark | ark of the covenant | article of furniture | body | body part | box | breast | breastbone | caisson | cedar chest | chest cavity | chiffonier | coffer | commode | craniate | drawer | female chest | furniture | gallbladder | highboy | hope chest | lid | male chest | musculus pectoralis | Pandora's box | pecs | pectoral | pectoral muscle | pectoralis | piece of furniture | pix | pix chest | pyx | pyx chest | rib cage | sea chest | shelf | sternum | tallboy | tea chest | thoracic aorta | thoracic cavity | thoracic vein | tool cabinet | tool case | tool chest | toolbox | torso | toy box | toy chest | treasure chest | trunk | vena thoracica | vertebrate | wedding chest Chest In Webster's Dictionary \Chest\ (ch[e^]st), n. [OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist,
cyst, L. cista, fr. Gr. ki`sth. Cf. {Cist}, {Cistern}.]
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. --Dryden.
2. A coffin. [Obs.]
He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. --Chaucer.
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\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chested}.] 1. To deposit in a chest; to hoard. 2. To place in a coffin. [Obs.] He dieth and is chested. --Gen. 1. 26 (heading). \Chest\, n. [AS. ce['a]st.] Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. |
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