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The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.

The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.

The menhaden.

The menhaded.

le remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.

A bank or mole to defend against the sea.

To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank. H. Taylor.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.

en . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual cour…

The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott.

On a level. The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.