Helen Fenton

Cash: Definition and part of speech

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Cash

  1. n. Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.
  2. n. A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
  3. n. Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cashew: Definition and part of speech

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Cashew

  1. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cashier: Definition and part of speech

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Cashier

  1. n. 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.
  2. v. t. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cashmere: Definition and part of speech

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Cashmere

  1. n. A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
  2. n. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.