he
kernel is enclosed in two coverings, the outer of which is smooth, grey
and leathery. Inside this external rind is a dark-coloured layer,
containing an excessively acrid juice. The kernels have a bland, oily,
pleasant taste. They are much eaten, both raw and roasted, in the
tropical regions in which the tree is cultivated, and they yield a
light-coloured, sweet-tasted oil, said to be equal to olive oil for
culinary purposes. The fruit-stalk, immediately under the fruit, is
swollen and fleshy, and assumes a pear-like shape. This swollen portion
of the stalk has a pleasant acid taste, and is eaten under the name of
cashew apple. By fermentation it yields an alcoholic beverage, from
which a spirit for drinking is distilled in the West Indies and Brazil.
The stem of the tree yields a gum analogous to gum arabic.

[Illustration: _Anacardium occidentale_, Cashew Nut plant, belonging to
the nat. ord. Anacardiaceae.

1. Branch (_reduced_), bearing flowers and fruit. The fruit-stalks are
enlarged in a pear-like form, bearing the nut (the true fruit) at
their apex.

2. Flower expanded.

3. Stamen and pistil, with the calyx; one fertile stamen longer than
the others.

4. Stamen separated.

5. Nut constituting the fruit.

6. Nut opened longitudinally.

7. Seed separated from the nut.

8. Cotyledons opened to show the radicle a, and the plumule.]

CASHIBO, or CARAPACHE ("bat"), a tribe of South American Indians of
Pannoan stock, living in scanty numbers on the west side of the Ucayali,
Peru. They are a wild, savage people who have always been foremost in
attacks on the Jesuits. They joined Juan Santos in 1744 in the
destruction of missions.

CASHIER. (1) (Adapted from the Fr. _caissier_, one in charge of the
_caisse_, or money-box), one who has charge of the payment or receiving
of money in a business house. The "cashier" may be a high executive
official of a banking or mercantile house--thus the name of chief
cashier of the Bank of England appears on all notes issued during his
occupation of the post--or he may be merely a clerk, who receives
payment for goods sold, and has the right to give receipts for the same.

(2) (In origin ultimately the same as "quash," to annul, from Lat.
_quassare_, to dash or break to pieces, a frequentative of _quatere_, to
shake, but also connected in form and meaning with _cassare_, to make,
_cassus_, empty or void), a military term, meaning origina