Definition of bank

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

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Unbank :: Unbank (v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank..
Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
Sea Bank :: Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
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..
Scarcement :: Scarcement (n.) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing..
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..
Banking :: Banking (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.
Interconvertible :: Interconvertible (a.) Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible..
Marsebanker :: Marsebanker (n.) The menhaden.
Sheeting :: Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
Banking :: Banking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ban.
Quinquereme :: Quinquereme (n.) A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme..
Embanking :: Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emba.
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Discovery :: Discovery (n.) A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets..
Direction :: Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank..
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..
Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued..
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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