Definition of bank

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

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Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting..
Discount :: Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange..
Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..
Polder :: Polder (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.
Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) An embankment or construction made of earth.
Water Course :: Water course () A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.
Bank :: Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
Bankrupted :: Bankrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Bankrup.
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Stock :: Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank..
Banker :: Banker (n.) A money changer.
Mound :: Mound (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll..
Banking :: Banking (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.
Riparian :: Riparian (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights..
Scrip :: Scrip (n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate..
Interconvertible :: Interconvertible (a.) Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible..
Credit Mobilier :: Credit mobilier () A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the credit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed..
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