Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CASH-IER'
CASH-IER', v.t. [Fr. casser, to break; It. cassare, to annul, blot out, erase.]
- To dismiss from an office or place of trust, by annulling the commission; to break, as for mal-conduct, and therefore with reproach; as, to cashier an officer of the army.
- To dismiss or discard from service or from society. – Addison. Dryden. Swift.
- To reject; to annul or vacate. – Locke. South.
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