Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court..

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Wild-cat :: Wild-cat (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..
Riverside :: Riverside (n.) The side or bank of a river.
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
Alluvion :: Alluvion (n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Ca–on :: Ca–on (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses..
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ..
Swash :: Swash (n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes..
Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..
Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..
Shinplaster :: Shinplaster (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar..
Turf :: Turf (v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace..
Change :: Change (v. t.) Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due..
Currency :: Currency (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter..
Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..
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