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Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc..

Water Buck :: Water buck () A large, heavy antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) native of Central Africa. It frequents the banks of rivers and is a good swimmer. It has a white ring around the rump. Called also photomok, water antelope, and waterbok..

Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..

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.

Clearing :: Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts..

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

Banker :: Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.

Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..

Ripe :: Ripe (n.) The bank of a river.

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc..

Scrip :: Scrip (n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate..

Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..

Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.

Ca–on :: Ca–on (n.) A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin..

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

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess)..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level..

Imbank :: Imbank (v. t.) To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

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