Part 1677

<hw>Ca"sern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>caserne</ets>.]</ety> <def>A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks.</def>

<i>Bescherelle.</i>

<h1>Case shot</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case" shot`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.</def>

<note>&hand; In the United States a <i>case shot</i> is a thin spherical or oblong cast-iron shell containing musket balls and a bursting charge, with a time fuse; -- called in Europe <i>shrapnel</i>. In Europe the term <i>case shot</i> is applied to what in the United States is called <i>canister</i>.</note>

<i>Wilhelm.</i>

<h1>Caseum</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Ca"se*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>caseus</ets> cheese.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Casein</er>.</def>

<h1>Caseworm</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case"worm`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See <er>Caddice</er>.</def>

<h1>Cash</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cash</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>caisse</ets> case, box, cash box, cash. See <er>Case</er> a box.]</ety> <def>A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This bank is properly a general <b>cash</b>, where every man lodges his money. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>\'9c20,000 are known to be in her <b>cash</b>. <i>Sir R. Winwood.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; <as>as, to sell goods for <ex>cash</ex>; to make a reduction in price for <ex>cash</ex>.</as></def>

<cs><col>Cash account</col> <fld>(Bookkeeping)</fld>, <cd>an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand.</cd> -- <col>Cash boy</col>, <cd>in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>Cash credit</col>, <cd>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 <altname>bank credit</altname> and <altname>cash account</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Cash sales</col>, <cd>sales made for ready, money, in distinction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.</cd></cs> <-- cash on the nail. A cash payment made immediately upon receiving the thing purchased. -->

<syn>Syn. -- Money; coin; specie; currency; capital.</syn>

<h1>Cash</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cash</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cashed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Casing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; <as>as, <ex>cash</ex> a note or an order</as>.</def>

<h1>Cash</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cash</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cashier</er>.]</ety> <def>To disband.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Garges.</i>

<h1>Cash</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Cash</hw>, <tt>n.sing & pl.</tt> <def>A Chinese coin.</def>

<note>&hand; The <i>cash</i> (<i>Chinese tsien</i>) is 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 <i>cash</i> are equivalent to a dollar.</note>

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<h1>Cashbook</h1> <Xpage=223>

<hw>Cash"book</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bookkeeping)</fld> <def>A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.</def>