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Cooler :: Cooler (n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc..

Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut..

Bohemian :: Bohemian (n.) The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family..

Egophony :: Egophony (n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..

Scrine :: Scrine (n.) A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine..

Pneumothorax :: Pneumothorax (n.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

Warble :: Warble (v. i.) To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston..

Stethoscope :: Stethoscope (n.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax..

Yodle :: Yodle (v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble..

Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form..

Arrangement :: Arrangement (n.) A piece so adapted; a transcription; as, a pianoforte arrangement of Beethoven's symphonies; an orchestral arrangement of a song, an opera, or the like..

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Enchest :: Enchest (v. t.) To inclose in a chest.

Pectoriloquy :: Pectoriloquy (n.) The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity..

Horse-chestnut :: Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name..

Buckeye :: Buckeye (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

Locker :: Locker (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A chest to hold ammunition.

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