Definition of bank

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

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Brae :: Brae (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
Beefwood :: Beefwood (n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland..
Mountebankism :: Mountebankism (n.) The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Triaconter :: Triaconter (n.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers..
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
Osiered :: Osiered (a.) Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks..
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bank; a fund.
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..
Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats..
Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..
Bourse :: Bourse (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris..
Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc..
Bankeress :: Bankeress (n.) A female banker.
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Water Buck :: Water buck () A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok..
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