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sal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.

pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

, a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

.), a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra.

A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.

Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Cowper. Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything. [Colloq.]

The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. Milton.

Proud to the highest degree. [R.] "This top-proud fellow." Shak.

The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.

Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree. The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. Cowper.

e deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

lly written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composes for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not or…

To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden.

Resplendent in the highest degree. [R.] -- Tran*splen"dent*ly, adv. [R.]

A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.