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medicine chest

Word definitions for medicine chest in dictionaries

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Medicine chest or medicine cabinet is a colloquial phrase and idiom used to describe an area with the highest concentration of medicine stockpile , production , or potential of sources for medicines. The phrase is used with the area to specify the scope, ...

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n. cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries [syn: medicine cabinet ]

Usage examples of medicine chest.

She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house--paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Halls Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia.

Benny didn't mind the water at all and Herby, after peering into his medicine chest and discovering that none of the contents were wet, merely gave himself a good shake.

Then he took a plaster out of his medicine chest and began working it between his palms to flatten out the ointment.

She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house—.

I was turning through the contents of my medicine chest, wondering whether a general pain reliever like willow-bark tea or horehound with fennel would work on a phantom pain.

I glanced at the sideboard, where his pistols lay beside my medicine chest, then back at his face, appalled.

Carlos opened the medicine chest - it appeared to be immaculately equipped -and administered two injections to the hapless Cola.

He picked up the medicine chest and walked with it over to the fire.

My remaining porters, seeing the state to which I have been reduced and knowing that I could not prevent it, have all deserted, but not before they had looted the camp and carried away almost everything of value, not excluding my medicine chest.

In one stroke, we had gone from riches-potential riches, at least-to rags, our well-equipped expedition reduced to a sack of beans and a used medicine chest.

I didn't stop to look at him, but dived into the cabin, carmoning into a fourth robber, who was indeed rummaging through my medicine chest.

But if Jimmy Carter had decided, 15 years ago, to sign on as a brush and gim-crack salesman for the Fuller people, he would be president of the Fuller Brush Company today and every medicine chest in the country would be loaded with Carter-Fuller brushes.

Anchors, chain and a ship's boat, plus a kit for the kitchen, carpenter tools, a medicine chest .