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Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..

Loess :: Loess (n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers..

Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter..

Stockinet :: Stockholder (n.) One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company..

Bank :: Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw..

Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank..

Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..

Bank-sided :: Bank-sided (a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided..

Turf :: Turf (v. t.) To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace..

Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

Run :: Run (n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes..

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Ruined financially; incapable of redeeming promises made, or of paying debts incurred; as, a broken bank; a broken tradesman..

Interconvertible :: Interconvertible (a.) Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible..

Fret :: Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..

Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

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