Definition of "medicine-chest" [medicine-chest]

• A chest for holding medicines, together with such instruments and appliances as are necessary for the purposes of surgery. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Drug Enforcement Administration sponsored a medicine-chest clean-out, during which folks were urged to clear out their cabinets and bring unneeded medications to designated drop-off spots."
• "She knew where the medicine-chest stood, at the rear of the room beyond the stove, and thither, by the legs, she dragged the struggling man."
• "Yesterday I overhauled the medicine-chest, and I dosed my chunks of fat pork and bread with the contents of every bottle that bore a label of skull and cross-bones."