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Banc (), ‖Bancus (), Bank (), n. [OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n.] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
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In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, “sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius)”.
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Bank (băṉk), n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.]
1. 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”.
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They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.
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2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
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3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
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Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.
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4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, “the banks of Newfoundland”.
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5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, “ores are brought to bank”.
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6. (Aëronautics) The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, “a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous”.
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7. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, “a bank of electric lamps, etc.”
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8. The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapidly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.
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Bank beaver (Zool.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.
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Bank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(băṉkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Banking.]
1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. “Banked well with earth.” Holland.
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2. To heap or pile up; as, “to bank sand”.
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3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] Shak.
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4. (Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapidly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, “the raceway was steeply banked at the curves”.
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To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.
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Bank, n. [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See Bench.]
1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
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Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep
Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.
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2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) 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. Burrill.
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3. (Printing) A sort of table used by printers.
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4. (Music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.
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Bank, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach.]
1. 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.
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2. The building or office used for banking purposes.
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3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.
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Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon.
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4. (Gaming) 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.
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5. In certain games, as dominoes, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.
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6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; specifically, an organization that stores biological products for medical needs; as, “a blood bank, an organ bank, a sperm bank”.
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Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. -- Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
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Bank, v. t. To deposit in a bank. Johnson.
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Bank, v. i.
1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
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2. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
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Bank, v. i. (Aëronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like.
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