cash

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 ]

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 ]