cashew tree (kashotre)

The tree, Ana ment of money. cashoo, n See catechu . Cashgar cloth. Same as putto . cash-girl (kash'gèrl), n. A girl who performs the same duties as a cash-boy. cashie (kash'i), a . [Sc.; cf. Icel. karskr , brisk, bold, hale, hearty, = Św. 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. Jamie son . [Scotch.] cashielawst, n. [Sc.] An old Scotch instru- ment of torture, consisting of a heated iron case for the leg. Also called caspielaws , cas- piecaws, cas pie claws. The three principal tortures that were habitually applied, were the penny wink is, the boots, and the caschie law is . 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. cashier11 (kash-ēr'), v. t. [Early mod. E. cas seere (cf. cash1 = ca 1), Casia, cas in casimiret, n. See ca imere. casing (kā'sing), n. [Verbal n. of case2, v.] 1. The act or proce expre ed by the verb case . Specifically-(a) The proce of blowing one piece of gla within another of a different color, while plas- tic, and then uniting them by firing. (6) In book bind- 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 pre ing the book is a part of the proce 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. (c) 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 lies between the stuffing and the mantle. (f) 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 (kā'singz), n . pl . [E. dial., also ca ons , cazzons , and formerly caseng , casen (also casard), cow-dung, prob. kase , dung ( ko- casings kase, cow-dung).] Dried cow-dung, used for fuel. Also called cow - blakes. [North. Eng.] casino (ka-se'nō), n. [It., a house, summerhouse, gaming-house, dim. of casa, a house, The times are such that one scarcely dares allude to that kind of company which you sands of our young men of Vanity Fair are frequenting every day, which nightly fills casinos and dancing-rooms. Thackeray , Vanity Fair. 3. A game of cards, in which the players, two or more in number, strive to obtain as many cards as po ible, especially certain cards of a counting value, as the ten of diamonds and two of spades. Tricks are taken by pairing, that is, by matching a card on the table with one in the hand; combining, or grouping together from the board, cards the number of pips on which equals the number on that played from the hand; and building, or combining cards on the board with one in the hand, the trick to be taken at the player's next turn. In this sense also spelled cas sino. - Big or great casino, the ten of diamonds, which in the game of casino counts two. - Little or small casino, the two of spades, which in the game of casino counts one. IMG:content-3223.png:[blocks in formation] casco, a helmet, skull, etc.: see cask1.] 1. A ca ava-plant. The roots, which are sometimes a yard helmet of any kind. [Chiefly poetic.] My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure. Tennyson, Sir Galahad. 2. In zoöl., some proce or formation on the head resembling a helmet; a galea. Especially applied in ornithology to the horn of the bill of the hornbills, and to the frontal bo or shield of various birds, as coots, gallinules, and sundry species of the family Icte ride. The head of the ca owary, Casuarius gale at us, offers a good example. See cut under ca owary. in length, are grated, and the pulp is freed from its milky juice. This is done by means of sacks made of matting, which are filled and suspended from a beam, weights being attached to the lower end. The meal thus dried is often made immediately into bread by baking it in broad thin cakes. Starch is obtained by washing the meal in water allowing the farinaceous portion This starch, when dried upon heated plates, is converted into tapioch The juice itself, especially that from the bitter ca ava, contains a considerable amount of hydrocyanic acid, and is very poisonous. ca ava-wood (ka-säʼvä-wud), n. The Turpi- nia occidental is , a stap hyle a ceo us tree of the casquett (kas'ket), n. [Early mod. E. casket = West Indies. D. kasket = G. casquet = Dan. kaskjet , a cap, casquet , caschetto , a little helmet, dim. ca et, v . t . See ca 1 . of n. An old form of chalcedony . casco, a helmet: see cask1, casque. ] Ahead cas sed ca edoinet, piece without a movable vizor, worn in the six cas see ret, v. t. An earlier form of cashier. teenth century and later. casquet2t, n. See casket2.