Chest, in commerce, a hind of measure, which contains an underlain quantity of various com-modities. Thus, a chest of sugar holds from 10 to 15 cwt.; a chest of glass from 2 to 300 cubic feet; of Castile soap, from 2 to 3 cwt.; of indigo, from l1/2 to 2 cwt. ; computed at live score to the hundred.