cash 
Cashing the greatest part of his land army, he only re- 
taineil 1000 of the liest soldiers. 
Sir .1. Giinjen, in 1'nrclias's Pilgrimage. 
cash't, [< cash 1 , v.] Disbandment. 
cash' 2 (kash), . [= D. l,'<in, rush, also box, 
chest, = Sw. kassa = Buss. kassa, money, < V. 
cussc (E. -ah, < F. -sse, cf. quash, abolish, etc.), 
a box, case, chest, money-box, counter, now a 
printer's case, a crucible : same word as <vi/.v-, 
a case, etc. : see <'- and <//-, of which c/ixli- 
is a doublet.] If. A receptacle for money ; a 
money-box. 
Twenty thousand pounds are known to he in httrMMft. 
,S/> It. HV/iinn*/, Memorials, iii. 2al. 
This bunk is properly a general auh where every one 
lodges his money. .SVr IK. 7Vi;fc, United Provinces, ii. 
2. Money; primarily, ready money; money on 
hand or at command. 
The real wealth of a nation, consisting in its lalior and 
eon i moil i ties, is to he estimated liy the sign of that wealth 
its circulating cash. A. Hamilton, Works, I. >&. 
Hard cash. () Hard money ; coin ; specie, (b) Money 
in hand ; actual money, us distinguished from other prop- 
erty. = Syn. 2. Sec iixiiH-ii. 
cash- (kash), r. t. [< cash 2 , .] 1. To turn into 
money, or to exchange for money : as, to cash 
a note or an order. 2. To pay money for: as, 
the paying teller of a bank cashes notes when 
presented. 
cash 3 (kasli), n. [An E. corruption of an E. 
Intl. word, Telugu and Canarese kdsu, Tamil 
kds, a small copper coin, 
also coin-money in gener- 
al. The Pg. caixa, a name 
applied to tin coins found 
by the Portuguese at Ma- 
lacca in 1511, brought 
thither from the Malabar 
coast in India, is perhaps 
the same word, accom. to 
Pg. caixa, a case, box, 
chest, also a cashier, = 
E. M*9 = case*, q. v.] 1 . 
T . he name f? ven ty ( . r - 
eigners to the only com 
in use among the Chinese, and called by them 
tsien (pronounced chen). It is a round disk of cop- 
per alloy, with a square hole in the middle for convenience 
in stringing, and is of the value of one tenth to one four- 
teenth of a cent. The characters above and below the 
square hole indicate the reign in which the coin was cast ; 
those on each side (reading from right to left) are called 
t'ung vao, and mean current coin, or money. A string 
of cash is a sum of 500 or 1,000 cash, according to local- 
ity, strung together, in divisions of 60 or 100. The name 
is also applied to a similar coin (called a rin) in circula- 
tion in Japan, one thousand being equal to a yen or dollar. 
2. The name sometimes given by foreigners 
to a li (pronounced le), or thousandth part of 
a Chinese liang or ounce. 3. A copper coin 
used for currency in Madras under the East 
India Company. 4. A coin of Pondicherry, 
having a value of one third of a cent. 5. A 
money of account in Sumatra, worth about 3 
cents. 
cash 4 (kash), n. [Cf. Ir. coislighe, Gael, coisich, 
a path, < Ir. Gael, cos, foot.] A prehistoric 
wooden road, resembling an American plank- 
road, or corduroy road. Roads of this kind have been 
found in Ireland in many localities, and in some cases are 
evidently connected with the crannogs. 
cash 5 (kash), . [Origin uncertain.] In coal- 
mining, soft shale or bind. [Scotland.] 
cash-account (kash'a-kount"), n. 1. An ac- 
count of money received, paid, or on hand. 
2. In banking, a credit given by a bank to an 
amount agreed upon to any individual or house 
of business on receipt of a bond with securities, 
generally two in number, for the repayment on 
demand of the sums actually advanced, with 
interest on each advance from the day on which 
it was made. Persons having such accounts draw upon 
them for whatever sums within their amount they have 
occasion for, repaying these advances as they find oppor- 
tunity, but generally within short periods. Interest is 
charged only on the average balance which may be due to 
the bank. Also called bank-credit and cash-credit, cash- 
account being more especially a Scotch name. The sys- 
tem of granting such credits seems to have been initiated 
by the Scotch banks. 
cashaw (ka-sha'), ra. A name of the algarroba 
or honey-mesquit, Prosopis juliflora. 
cash-book (kash'buk), n. [< cash 2 + book; = 
I), kasboek.'] A book in which is kept a regis- 
ter or an account of money received and paid. 
Petty cash-book, a book in which small receipts and 
payments are entered. 
cash-box (kash'boks), n. A metal or wooden 
box for keeping money. 
cash-boy (kash'boi), n. A boy employed in a 
shop or store to carry the money received by 
salesmen from customers to a cashier and bring 
back the proper change. 
843 
cash-carrier (kash'kar'i-er), w. A device for 
conveying the money received at the counters 
of a shop or store to the cashier and returning 
the change. It usually consists of a car or receptacle 
traveling upon an overhead track or wire extending frnin 
the counters to a central office or ileok. Another common 
form is that of a pneiimatie tnl.e. 
cash-credit (kash'kred"it), n. Same as cash- 
in-i-iiiiiil, '2. 
cash-day (kash'dii), n. A day on which cash 
is iv^ularly paid; a pay-day or settling-day. 
casher-box (kash'fer-boks), n. [< 'casher (per- 
haps < F. easier, a pigeonhole, case of pigeon- 
holes, < ciiiif, < lj. casit, a house) + in* 2 .] A 
table used in the manufacture of glass. It Is 
covered uith coal-finders, and on it the globe of glass is 
rested while the blowing -tube i disennnerted and a roil 
attached to the other pole of the globe preparatory to the 
operation of Hashing. K. II. Kni'iht. 
cashew (ka-sho"), . [Also written cadju (= 
F. cachou in special sense, a sweetmeat: see 
eachou) ; = Pg. caju = Sp. cayou (E. also acajou 
= G. acajou-, acajanuss, after F. acajou a pom- 
mes, the cashew-tree, noijc (t acajou, the cashew- 
nut, by confusion with acajou, mahogany: see 
acajou 1 ), < Hind, kdjfi, kanjit, the cashew-nut.] 
1. The Anacardium occidentals and its fruit. 
See Anacardium and cashew-nut. 2. Same as 
cachou. Cashew gum. See^um. 
cashew-bird (ka-sho"berd), n. The name given 
in Jamaica to one of the tanagers, the Tana- 
casings 
sicren = Dan. kaxsere = S\v. kassera, cast off, 
discharge, discard, cashier, annul, < OF. w.w / . 
discharge, enshii-r, > K. nixlt 1 , (j. v.] 1. To dis- 
miss from an office or place of trust by an- 
nulling the commission by virtue of which it is 
beKL 
lie had the insolenre to rax/uVr the captain of the lord- 
lieutenant's own hody-guard. Macaulay. 
Hence 2. Figuratively, to dismiss or discard 
from service or from association. 
The king that expelled the Tartars about t hundred 
yi-aivs since, enluhli-hid this their pn-.-ent 1'iditie, . . . 
catnteffin:! all the aneient Nobilitie and Magistrates, that 
none is now great but the Km-. 
I'lifi-luiti, Pilgrimage, p. 440. 
Your son, an't please you, sir, is new cashier'd yonder. 
Cast from his mistress' favour. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, v. 4. 
They have already cashiered several of their followera 
as mutineers. Addition. 
3. To reject; put out of account; disregard. 
[Rare.] 
Some cashier, or at least endeavour to invalidate, all 
other argument*. Locke. 
4f. To abolish ; do away with ; get rid of. 
If we will now resolve to settle affairs either according 
to pure Religion or sound Policy, we must Hrst of all be- 
gin roundly to cashier, and cut away from the publick 
body the noysom and diseased tumour of 1'ndarie. 
Milton, Reformation In Eng., II. 
cashier 2 (kash-er'), [.Early m d- E- also 
casheer ; = D. kassier = G. kassierer, kassirer, 
P 
Cashew-bird (Spinaalfs ni^ricepHata^. 
gra zena of Gosse, now Sjtindalis nigricephala, 
an oscine passerine bird of the family Tanagri- 
da?, which feeds on the berries of the bully-tree. 
cashew-nut (ka-sho 'nut), n. The kidney-shaped 
nut of the Anacardium oc- 
cidentale (see Anacardium), 
consisting of a kernel in- 
closed in a very hard shell, 
which is borne upon a 
swollen pear-shaped edible 
Stalk. The shell is composed of 
two hard layers, between which 
is contained an acrid and almost 
caustic juice, producing on the 
skin a very painful and persistent 
vesicular eruption. This acrid 
quality is removed by heat, and 
the kernel then becomes edible 
and is much esteemed, furnish- 
ing also a sweet oil. Oriental 
cashew-nut, or nurtw-nut, a 
similar fruit of an allied tree of Anacardium ocdtttntaic. 
the East Indies, Semecarpus An- i, ,, i, cashew-nuts. 
acardium. The juice becomes 
black on exposure, and is employed in marking cotton 
cloths and as a remedy for warts. 
cashew-tree (ka-sho'tre), n. The tree, Ana- 
cardium occidentale, producing the cashew-nut. 
Cashgar cloth. Sameas^wMp. 
cash-girl (kash'gerl), n. A girl who performs 
the same duties as a cash-boy. 
cashie (kash'i), a. [Sc. ; cf. Icel. karskr, brisk, 
bold, hale, hearty, = Sw. Dan. karsk, hale, 
hearty.] 1. Luxuriant and succulent: applied 
to vegetables and shoots of trees. 2. Growing 
very rapidly; hence, delicate; unable to en- 
dure fatigue. 3. Flaccid; soft. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] 
cashielawst, . [Sc.] An old Scotch instru- 
ment of torture, consisting of a heated iron 
case for the leg. Also called caspielaws, cas- 
piecaws, caspieclaws. 
The three principal tortures that were habitually ap- 
plied, were the pennywinkis, the boots, and the caschie- 
laivis. The first was a kind of thumb-screw ; the second 
was a frame in which the leg was inserted, and in which it 
was broken by wedges, driven in by a hammer ; the third 
was also an iron frame for the leg, which was from time to 
time heated over a brazier. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 147. 
cashier 1 (kash-er'), v. t. [Early mod. E. cas- 
seere (cf. cash 1 = cass 1 ), < D. casseren = G. cas- 
Srop. kassicr, = Dan. kasserer = Sw. kassor. < 
. caissier (= Sp. cajero = Pg. caixeiro = It. 
cassiere), a cashier, < caisse, a money-box : see 
cash 2 , case 2 , and -ier, -eer.'] 1. One who has 
charge of cash or money; one who superin- 
tends the routine monetary transactions of a 
bank or other commercial concern; a cash- 
keeper. 2f. A money-box ; a cash. 
cashierer (kash-er'er), n. One who cashiers, 
rejects, or discards: as, "a cashierer of mon- 
archs," liurke. 
cash-keeper (kash 'keeper), . One intrusted 
with the keeping of money and money-ac- 
counts; a cashier. 
cashmere (kash'mer), n. and a. [Also written 
cachemere (and with altered form and sense easi- 
mire, cassimere, kerseymere, q. v.); = F. cache- 
mire = D. kashemire = G. Kaschmir (-schawte) 
= Dan. kasimir = Turk, qdzmir, cashmere, so 
called because first made in Cashmere (F. Cache- 
mire, G. Kaschmir), now commonly written 
Kashmir, repr. Kashmir, the native name (Skt. 
Kaqmira), a state and valley in the Himalaya 
mountains north of the Panjab. ] I. n. A fine 
and soft woolen fabric used for dress-goods. It 
differs from merino in being twilled on one 
side only. 
II. a. Made of the dress-fabric so named. 
Cashmere Shawl, or India shawl, a shawl originally 
made in the valley of Cashmere, and afterward in the Pan- 
jab, from the fine downy wool found about the roots of the 
hair of the wild goat of Tibet and the Himalayas. It is also 
known as the camel's-hair shawl, from the popular notion 
that the finest were formerly made of that material. 
cashmerette (kash-me-ref), n. [Dim. of cash- 
mcre.~\ A textile fabric for women's dresses, 
made with a soft and glossy surface, in imita- 
tion of cashmere. 
Cashmerian (kash-me'ri-an), a. [< Cashmere 
(see cashmere) + -ian.~\ Of or pertaining to 
Cashmere, a valley and tributary state of India, 
in the Himalaya mountains north of the Panjab. 
Also spelled Kashmirian. 
cash-note (kash'uot), . A note for the pay- 
ment of money. 
cashoo, n. See catechu. 
Casia, n. See Cassia. 
casimiret, n. See cassimere. 
casing (ka'sing), n. [Verbal n. of case 2 , v.] 
1. The act or process expressed by the verb 
ease. Specifically (a) The process of blowing one piece 
of glass within another of a different color, while plas- 
tic, and then uniting them by firing. (6) In bookbind- 
ing, the operation of inserting the sewed sections of a 
book into its case or cover. The work of pasting down 
the cover-leaves, clearing out the waste, and pressing the 
book is a part of the process of casing. 
2. A case: a covering; an inclosure. Specifi- 
cally (a) The framework around a door or window. 
Also called case, (b) A wooden tunnel for powder-hose in 
blasting. () A covering surrounding the smoke-stack or 
funnel of a steamboat to protect the deck from the heat. 
(d) The cast-iron body of a tubed or converted gun. (e) 
That portion of the wall of a blast-furnace which Iwg 
between the stuffing and the mantle. (/) In mining, 
the altered portion of the "country " not closely adjacent 
to the lode : almost the exact equivalent of the Cornish 
capel (which see). See also gouge and selvage. [Cordille- 
ran mining region.] 
casings (ka'singz), n. pi. [E. dial., also cassons, 
cazzons, and formerly caseng, < ME. casen (also 
casard), cow-dung, prob. < Dan. kase, dung (ko- 
