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Trireme :: Trireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars..

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..

Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment..

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

Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.

Rest :: Rest (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow..

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.

Cave :: Cave (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter..

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

Ruin :: Ruin (n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

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

Assignment :: Assignment (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors..

Check :: Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

Post Note :: Post note () A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand..

Water Wing :: Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current..

Banked :: Banked (imp. & p. p.) of Ban.

Discount :: Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange..

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