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A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, swee…

Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. [R.] Chesterfield.

swear at. In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. Rochester.

Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.

regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence. Chesterfield. -- In*con`se*quen"tial*ly, adv.

Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.

angement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.

piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.

-- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water chestnut. -- Jesuits' powder, powdered cinchona bark. -- Jesuits' tea, a Chilian leguminous shrub, used as a tea and medicinally.

monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove.

A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson. Halliwell.

d eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

tions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education. Chesterfield.