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MEDICINE CHEST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does medicine chest mean?
• MEDICINE CHEST (noun)
The noun MEDICINE CHEST has 1 sense:
1. cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries
Familiarity information: MEDICINE CHEST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
medicine cabinet; medicine chest
Hypernyms ("medicine chest" is a kind of...):
cabinet (a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display)
Context examples
Half an hour after, Jo went to 'Mother's closet' for something, and there found little Beth sitting on the medicine chest, looking very grave, with red eyes and a camphor bottle in her hand.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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