CHESSY COPPER
Ches`sy" cop"per. (Min.)
Defn: The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
CHEST Chest, n. Etym: [OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist, cyst, L. cista, fr. Gr. 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.)
Defn: A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
5. (Mech.)
Defn: A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liguids, 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.