in commerce, a kind of measure, containing an uncertain quantity of several commodities.

A chest of sugar, v. g., contains from 10 to 15 hundred weight; a chest of glass, from two hundred to three hundred feet; of Catile soap, from two and a half to three hundred weight; of indigo, from one and a half to two hundred weight, five score to the hundred.

or Thorax. See Anatomy Index.