Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

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Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart..
Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
Strode :: Strid (n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride..
Banker :: Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
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..
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
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)..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
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..
Utter :: Utter (a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow..
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bank; a fund.
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
Mound :: Mound (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll..
Brink :: Brink (n.) The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig..
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