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A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. [Prov. Eng.] Howitt. This striding place is called the Strid. Wordsworth.

To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.

an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.

d payment (Com.), to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.

Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]

nt by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.

od. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to empl…

An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.

sed level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.

One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.

rolling on it. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). -- Wild thyme, Thymus Serpyllum, common on banks and hillsides in Europe. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. Shak.

Abounding with thyme; fragrant; as, a thymy vale. Akenside. Where'er a thymy bank he found, He rolled upon the fragrant ground. Gay.

nsurance. Too many of the financiers by professions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop. Burke.

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

the corresponding region upon the other side. Transfer day, one of the days fixed by the Bank of England for the transfer, free of charge, of bank stock and government funds. These days are the first five business days in the week before three o'clock. Transfers may be made on Saturdays on payment of a fee of 2s. 6d.…

A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.