Word Meanings - CHEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains. (more info) 1. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

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A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains. (more info) 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. He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. Chaucer. 3. The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.