chest

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The part of the body between the neck and the abdomen, enclosed by the ribs and the breastbone; the thorax.
2. n. A sturdy box with a lid and often a lock, used especially for storage.
3. n. A small closet or cabinet with shelves for storing supplies: a medicine chest above the bathroom sink.
4. n. The treasury of a public institution.
5. n. The funds kept there.
6. n. A box for the shipping of certain goods, such as tea.
7. n. The quantity packed in such a box.
8. n. A sealed receptacle for liquid, gas, or steam.
9. n. A bureau; a dresser.
10. idiom. get (something) off (one's) chest To vent one's pent-up feelings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A box, properly one of considerable size, made of wood, iron, or other material, with a hinged lid, used as a depository for treasure, papers of record, clothing, or other articles.
2. n. Specifically In com., a box-shaped case in which certain kinds of goods, as tea, indigo, opium, etc., are packed for transit.
3. n. The quantity such a case contains; a customary but uncertain measure of capacity for a few commodities: as, a chest of isinglass is 3½ hundredweight; a chest of cochineal is 1½ hundredweight.
4. n. A coffin.
5. n. The trunk of the body from the neck to the belly; the thorax (which see).
6. To deposit in a chest; hoard.
7. To place in a coffin.
8. n. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
9. n. The funds of a public institution, or the strong box, coffer, or place where such funds are, or are supposed to be, kept; the treasury: as, a military chest; the university chest; the chest for the relief of maimed manners; etc.
10. n. In organ-building, see wind-chest.

Wiktionary

1. n. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
2. n. obsolete A coffin.
3. n. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
4. n. A chest of drawers.
5. n. anatomy The portion 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.
6. n. A hit or blow made with one's chest (the front of one's body).
7. v. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
2. n. obsolete A coffin.
3. n. The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
4. n. (Com.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
5. n. (Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc..
6. v. To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
7. v. obsolete To place in a coffin.
8. n. obsolete Strife; contention; controversy.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy
2. n. furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
3. n. the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
4. n. the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates