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a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

The chestnut tree. [Obs.] Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.

The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.

To put into a chest.

See Orchestra.

Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidæ. See Beach flea, under Beach.

The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.

Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

See Orchestra.

Orchestral.

A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.

also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.