bank

1. n. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. Source: opted

6. n. The face of the coal at which miners are working. Source: opted

7. n. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. Source: opted

8. n. The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Source: opted

9. v. t. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. Source: opted

10. v. t. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. Source: opted

11. v. t. To pass by the banks of. Source: opted

12. n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Source: opted

13. n. The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. n. A sort of table used by printers. Source: opted

16. n. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Source: opted

17. n. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity. Source: opted

18. n. The building or office used for banking purposes. Source: opted

19. n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. Source: opted

20. n. The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. Source: opted

21. n. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. Source: opted

22. v. t. To deposit in a bank. Source: opted

23. v. i. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. Source: opted

24. v. i. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. Source: opted

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