Definition of chest

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Chest (n.) 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..

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Pallet :: Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes..
Orchestre :: Orchestre (n.) See Orchestra.
Capsulated :: Capsulated (a.) Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box..
Kahau :: Kahau (n.) A long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey..
Hutch :: Hutch (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest..
Box :: Box (n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box..
Ophicleide :: Ophicleide (n.) A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas..
Ark :: Ark (n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge..
Shuck :: Shuck (n.) A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut..
Abdominothoracic :: Abdominothoracic (a.) Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest..
Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) An old joke or story.
Saucisse :: Saucisse (n.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc..
Chetvert :: Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels..
Chesteyn :: Chesteyn (n.) The chestnut tree.
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
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..
Intrathoracic :: Intrathoracic (a.) Within the thora/ or chest.
Asthma :: Asthma (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration..
Ark :: Ark (n.) A chest, or coffer..
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