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7 definitions found 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['a]st.] Strife; contention; controversy. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chest \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is iis, AS [=i]s; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. [=i]s, Icel. [=i]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[deg] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] 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['e]. {Ice petrel} (Zo["o]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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chest n 1: the part of the human body between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates [syn: {thorax}, {pectus}] 2: box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy 3: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: {chest of drawers}, {bureau}, {dresser}] 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." From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: CHEST Computers in Higher Education Software Team (org., UK)
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