2. To place in a coffin. [Obs.]
He dieth and is chested. --Gen. 1. 26
(heading).
Heaps of money crowded in the chest. --Dryden.
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.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc.,
are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case
contains.
5. (Mech.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding
gas, steam, liquids, 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.
Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
it.
2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
artificially frozen.
4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
ice.
{Anchor ice}, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
{Bay ice}, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
extensive fields which drift out to sea.
{Ice age} (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
{Glacial}.
{Ice anchor} (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
field of ice. --Kane.
{Ice blink} [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
yet in sight.
{Ice boat}.
(a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
ice by sails; 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} [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
{Ice field}, an extensive sheet of ice.
{Ice float}, {Ice floe}, a sheet of floating ice similar to
an ice field, but smaller.
{Ice foot}, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.
{Ice house}, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
{Ice machine} (Physics), a machine for making ice
artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
{Ice master}. See {Ice pilot} (below).
{Ice pack}, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
{Ice paper}, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
reproducing; papier glac['e].
{Ice petrel} (Zo["o]l.), a shearwater ({Puffinus gelidus}) of
the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
{Ice pick}, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
pieces.
{Ice pilot}, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
also {ice master}.
{Ice pitcher}, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
{Ice plow}, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.