Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow..

Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand..

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

Bank :: Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ..

Bank :: Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses..

Bank :: Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw..

Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.

Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note..

Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency..

Bank Book :: Bank book () A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank..

Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..

Bank Note :: Bank note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2..

Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note payable at a bank.

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