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noun

Chest n.

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."

2.

A coffin. (Obs.) "He is now dead and mailed in his cheste."

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.

drawer n.

1.

One who, or that which, draws; as:

(a)

One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.

(b)

One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

(c)

(Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; the correlative of drawee.

2.

That which is drawn; as:

(a)

A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

(b)

pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

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"Chest of drawers" Quotes from Famous Books

... the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... was alone, he walked to a chest of drawers in which he kept a disorderly multitude of possessions, and took out a mingled handful of letters, photographs, and sketches. Throwing them on a table, he looked for and found a photograph of Phoebe with Carrie on her knee, and a little sketch of Phoebe—one of the first ideas for the ...

— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... brief effort of will repressed for awhile the mad dance that overmastered her. The spirit within her, if spirit it were, kept quiet for a moment, awed and subdued by her proud determination. Then it began once more and led her resistlessly forward. She moved over to the chest of drawers still rhythmically and with set steps, but to the phantom strain of some unheard low music. The music was running vaguely through her head all the time—wild Aeolian music—it sounded like a rude tune on a harp or zither. And surely the cymbals clashed now and again overhead; and the ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... poured a broad, but subdued, stream of light. On one side of the window was an ancient armoire, containing the Dominie's library, not gilt and lettered but well thumbed and worn. On the other his huge chest of drawers, on which lay, alas! for the benefit of the rising generations, a new birch rod, of large dimensions. The table was in the centre of the room, and the Dominie sat at it, with his back to the window, in a dressing-gown, ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... aunt's parlour was a perfect moral. I have never seen its like before or since. The mantelpiece and the corner cupboard, and the shelves behind the door, and the top of the chest of drawers and the bureau were all covered up with a perfect litter and lurry of old china. Not sets of anything, but different basins and jugs and cups and plates and china spoons and the bust of John Wesley and Elijah feeding ...

— In Homespun • Edith Nesbit

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