Cash \Cash\, 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cash \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.]

This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. --Sir W. Temple.

[pounds]20,000 are known to be in her cash. --Sir R. Winwood.

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.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cash \Cash\, v. t. [See Cashier.]

To disband. [Obs.]

--Garges.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cash \Cash\, n.sing & pl. A Chinese coin.

Note: The cash (Chinese tsien) 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 cash are equivalent to a dollar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)