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Roan :: Roan (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse..

Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

Amentaceous :: Amentaceous (a.) Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence..

Cupuliferous :: Cupuliferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule..

Chest :: Chest (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains..

Mara :: Mara (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions..

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like..

Hutch :: Hutch (v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest..

Serpent :: Serpent (n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form..

Buckeye :: Buckeye (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.

Intrathoracic :: Intrathoracic (a.) Within the thora/ or chest.

Chest :: Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos..

Cupule :: Cupule (n.) A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc..

Egophony :: Egophony (n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion..

Spirometry :: Spirometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer..

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Commode :: Commode (n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.

Thoracentesis :: Thoracentesis (n.) The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

Casket :: Casket (n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc..

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