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Webster 1913 Edition

Chest

Chest

(chĕst)
,
Noun.
[OE.
chest
,
chist
, AS.
cest
,
cist
,
cyst
, L.
cista
, fr. Gr.
κίστη
. 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.

Chest

(chĕst)
,
Verb.
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).

Chest

(chĕst)
,
Noun.
[AS.
ceást
.]
Strife; contention; controversy.
[Obs.]
P. Plowman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Chest

CHEST

, n.
1.
A box of wood or other material, in which goods are kept or transported. It differs from a trunk in not being covered with skin or leather.
2.
The trunk of the body from the neck to the belly; the thorax. Hence, broad-chested, narrow-chested, having a broad or narrow chest.
3.
In commerce, a certain quantity; as a chest of sugar; a chest of indigo; &c.
Chest of drawers is a case of movable boxes called drawers.

CHEST

,
Verb.
T.
To reposit in a chest; to hoard.

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Noun

chest ‎(plural chests)

  1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
    The clothes are kept in a chest.‎
    • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:
      But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].
  2. (obsolete) A coffin.
  3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
    You can take the money from the chest.‎
  4. A chest of drawers.
  5. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
    She had a sudden pain in her chest.‎
  6. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
    He scored with a chest into the goal.‎
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Verb

chest ‎(third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

  1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
    • 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
      Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
  2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
    • Bible, Genesis 1. 26
      He dieth and is chested.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas ‎(“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse ‎(“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest ‎(“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa ‎(“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest ‎(plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.

Pronoun

chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

  1. this

See also

Ladin

Alternative forms

  • chëst

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

  1. this
  2. (in the plural) these

Middle English

Etymology

Old English ċeast.

Noun

chest

  1. quarrelling, disputation
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
      And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.

Old French

Adjective

chest m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

  1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χɛst/

Verb

chest

  1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Etymology

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist ‎(“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-Germanic *kistō ‎(“chest, box”), from Latin cista ‎(“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη ‎(kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ ‎(“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist ‎(“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste ‎(“box, chest”), Dutch kist ‎(“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste ‎(“box, crate, case, chest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

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