Cashier \Cash*ier"\ (k[a^]sh*[=e]r"), n. [F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash.]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Cashier \Cash*ier"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cahiered; p. pr. &vb. n. Cashiering.]

[Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break, annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. Quash to annul, Cass.]

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

They have cashiered several of their followers. --Addison.

He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. --Macaulay.

2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [R.]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared

By selfish views, [are] censured and cashiered. --Cowper.

They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. --Sowth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)