n. [ F. caisse case, box, cash box, cash. See Case a box. ] A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

£20, 000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money. (b) Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. --
Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [ Colloq. ] --
Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given security for repayment, draws at pleasure upon the bank to the extent of an amount agreed upon; -- called also bank credit and cash account. --
Cash sales, sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.

Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cashed p. pr. & vb. n. Casing. ] To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Cashier. ] To disband. [ Obs. ] Garges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. A Chinese coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In 1913 the cash (Chinese tsien) was the only current coin made by the chinese government. It is a thin circular disk of a very base alloy of copper, with a square hole in the center. 1, 000 to 1, 400 cash were equivalent to a dollar. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

adj. able to be converted into ready money; as, a cashable check; cashable gambling chips.
Syn. -- redeemable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bookkeeping) A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a box for holding cash.
Syn. -- money box, till. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. converted into currency; -- of financial instruments; as, a cashed check. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. acajou, for cajou, prob. from Malay kāyu tree; cf. Pg. acaju, cf. Acajou. ] 1. (Bot.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the cashew nut. [ PJC ]

Cashew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash. ] One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cashiered p. pr. & vb. n. Cashiering. ] [ Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break, annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. Quash to annul, Cass. ] 1. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared [ 1913 Webster ]

By selfish views, [ are ] censured and cashiered. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. Sowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Banking) A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere; -- often called camel's-hair shawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cachou, NL. catechu, Cochin-Chin. cay cau from the tree called mimosa, or areca catechu. Cf. Catechu. ] See Catechu. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. (Eng. Banking) To turn into cash; to cash. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Banking) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Com.) Cash paid or ready for payment at once upon delivery of property purchased. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]