Definition of bank

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

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Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..
Bankable :: Bankable (a.) Receivable at a bank.
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
Lombard :: Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Burse :: Burse (n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Discovery :: Discovery (n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..
Banker :: Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
Syndicate :: Syndicate (n.) An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit..
Thelphusian :: Thelphusian (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
Berme :: Berme (n.) A ledge at the bottom of a bank or cutting, to catch earth that may roll down the slope, or to strengthen the bank..
Embank :: Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Brink :: Brink (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig..
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
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