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lied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.

lace where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box. [Obs.] This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money. Sir W. Temple. £20,000 are known to be in her cash. Sir R. Winwood.

er; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.

, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin.

er denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to t…

own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.

A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.

moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.

catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft.

To conduct along a coast or river bank. [Obs.] The Indians . . . coasted me along the river. Hakluyt.

e northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.