cashboy (kashboi)

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. an oscine pa erine bird of the family Tanagri dæ, which feeds on the berries of the bully-tree. cashew-nut (ka-shö'nut), n. The kidney-shaped nut of the Anacardium oос 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 marking - nut, a similar fruit of an allied tree of Anacardium occident ale. 1, 1, 1, cashew-nuts. the East Indies, Seme carpus An IMG:content-3220.png:[blocks in formation] He had the insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body-guard. Macaulay . Hence-2. Figuratively, to dismi or discard from service or from a ociation. The king that expelled the Tartars about two hundred yeares since, established this their present Politie, cas see ring all the ancient Nobilitie and Magistrates, that none is now great but the King. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 440. Your son, an't please you, sir, is new cashier'd yonder, Cast from his mistre ' favour. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, v. 4. They have already cashiered several of their followers as mutineers. Add is on . 3. To reject; put out of account; disregard. [Rare.] Some cashier, or at least endeavour to invalidate, all other arguments. Locke . 4+. 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 first of all begin roundly to cashier , and cut away from the publick body the noysom and diseased tumour of Prelacie. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii.