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Mephitic(medicine)
cashier(1)(dictionary)
cashier(2)(dictionary)
Cashier's Cage(casino)
cashier 2, verb(dictionary)
cashier 1, noun(dictionary)
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Cashier's Cage(casino)

cashier(2) (iou) and Mephitic (medicine)


cashier(2) (iou)



cashier verb trans. L16.
[Early Flemish kasseren disband (soldiers), revoke (a will), from French casser break, dismiss, rescind = Italian cassare cancel, from Latin quassare QUASH verb.]
Discharge or disband (troops). L16-M18.
Dismiss from a position of command or authority, esp. with disgrace; depose. L16.
W. S. Maugham He'd been kicked out of the Officers' Club at Warsaw and cashiered because he'd been caught cheating at cards.
gen. Dismiss. obsolete exc. as fig. use of sense 2. L16.
Addison The Ladies..have already cashiered several of their Followers.
Discard; get rid of. arch. L16.
cashierment noun M17.

Mephitic (medicine)


mephitic
Foul, poisonous, or noxious.

Origin: L. Mephitis, a noxious exhalation