Cash

Cash (old Fr. casse, 'a chest for containing money') is sometimes used for money as distinguished from produce, in which sense it includes all immediately negotiable paper—bills, drafts, and bonds, as well as coin and bank-notes. At other times it is used in a limited sense to denote coin and bank-notes, as distinguished from negotiable instruments which pass by indorsation. In the money system in use at the Chinese Treaty ports, cash is the name of those coins, of a copper alloy, which are perforated and strung on a thread; this word is derived from the Tamil kasu, a small Indian coin. See TABEL.