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To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.

A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [Holland & Belgium]

A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.

eral; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro. Hoyle.

icines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

Designating, or pertaining to, a form of coöperative bank founded among the German agrarian population by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-88); as, Raiffeisen banks, the Raiffeisen system, etc. The banks are unlimited-liability institutions making small loans at a low rate of interest, for a designated purpose, to wo…

A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan.

A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.] They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.

Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.

of those dealt to black. All bets are then off; unless the value is 31, in which case the banker wins half the stakes.

Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.

he queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central rese…

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. [Eng.]

. Temple. Retaining wall (Arch. & Engin.), a wall built to keep any movable backing, or a bank of sand or earth, in its place; -- called also retain wall.