| • | A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
| • | The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. |
| • | An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. |
| • | The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
| • | A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
| • | The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. |
| • | To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. |
| • | To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. |
| • | To pass by the banks of. |
| • | A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. |
| • | The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A sort of table used by printers. |
| • | A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The building or office used for banking purposes. |
| • | A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. |
| • | 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. |
| • | In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
| • | To deposit in a bank. |
| • | To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. |
| • | To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. |
