CASE-SHOT, or CANISTER-SII0T, is an assemblage of bullets or small balls, inclosed in a cylindrical case or canister. The diameter of this canister is a little less than the bore of the gun from which it is to be discharged. According to the size of the can ister, the balls vary from 1 lb. to + oz. each, from 30 to 280 in number, and from 31 lbs. to 85 lbs. in total weight. The canister bursts immediately on the gun, and the balls spread out into an irregular sort of cone. Within a range of 500 yards they work great execution among troops: they are generally used at 200 or 300 yards.
In a more modern and effective kind, called spherical case, the bullets are inclosed, along with a charge of powder, in an iron shell, instead of a tin canister. It is often called shrapnel shell, from the name of its inventor. A spherical case-shot for a 68-1b. carronade, or for an 8-inch howitzer, contains 337 balls; for a 24-pounder gun, 128; and for an 18-pounder, 90. It is exploded by a fuse, the length of which depends on the
distance of the point where the destructive effect is to be wrought. Its effect is some thing like that of a prolonged musket-fire. The shrapnel shell is not of much use against the hull of a ship; but is very destructive against masses of inen on shore, or on the decks of a ship, with a greater range than that of ordinary canister. Artillerymen pre fer just such an amount of charge as will burst the sphere, without scattering the balls very widely.
CASH (Fr. caisse, a chest for containing money) is sometimes used as synonymous with money, as distinguished from produce, in which sense it includes all immediately nego tiable paper—bills, drafts, and bonds, 1.6. 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 nego tiable instruments which pass by indorsation.