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English Dictionary: chest by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chest
n
  1. the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
    Synonym(s): thorax, chest, pectus
  2. box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy
  3. the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen; "he beat his breast in anger"
    Synonym(s): breast, chest
  4. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
    Synonym(s): chest of drawers, chest, bureau, dresser
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chest \Chest\ (ch[ecr]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chest \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).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chest \Chest\, n. [AS. ce[a0]st.]
      Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [c6]s; aksin to D.
      ijs, G. eis, OHG. [c6]s, Icel. [c6]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and
      perh. to E. iron.]
      1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
            by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
            colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
            Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[f8] C.
            being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
  
      Note: Water freezes at 32[f8] F. or 0[f8] Cent., and ice
               melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
               properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
               it.
  
      2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
  
      3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
            artificially frozen.
  
      4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
            ice.
  
      {Anchor ice}, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
            other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
            is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
  
      {Bay ice}, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
            extensive fields which drift out to sea.
  
      {Ground ice}, anchor ice.
  
      {Ice age} (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
            {Glacial}.
  
      {Ice anchor} (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
            field of ice. --Kane.
  
      {Ice blink} [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
            horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
            yet in sight.
  
      {Ice boat}.
            (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
                  ice by sails; an ice yacht.
            (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
                 
  
      {Ice box} [or] {chest}, a box for holding ice; a box in which
            things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
  
      {Ice brook}, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
            --Shak.
  
      {Ice cream} [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
            sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
  
      {Ice field}, an extensive sheet of ice.
  
      {Ice float}, {Ice floe}, a sheet of floating ice similar to
            an ice field, but smaller.
  
      {Ice foot}, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.
  
      {Ice house}, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
           
  
      {Ice machine} (Physics), a machine for making ice
            artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
            through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
            rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
  
      {Ice master}. See {Ice pilot} (below).
  
      {Ice pack}, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
  
      {Ice paper}, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
            reproducing; papier glac[82].
  
      {Ice petrel} (Zo[94]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus}) of
            the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
  
      {Ice pick}, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
            pieces.
  
      {Ice pilot}, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
            course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
            also {ice master}.
  
      {Ice pitcher}, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
  
      {Ice plow}, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Chest
      (Heb. _'aron_, generally rendered "ark"), the coffer into which
      the contributions for the repair of the temple were put (2 Kings
      12:9, 10; 2 Chr. 24:8, 10, 11). In Gen. 50:26 it is rendered
      "coffin." In Ezek. 27:24 a different Hebrew word, _genazim_
      (plur.), is used. It there means "treasure-chests."
     
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