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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Paper :: Paper (n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper..
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.
Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..
Run :: Run (a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on..
Stank :: Stank (n.) Water retained by an embankment; a pool water.
Bankrupting :: Bankrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrup.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess)..
Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Faro :: Faro (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack..
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Cessionary :: Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..
Bank Swallow :: Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n..
Account :: Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank..
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