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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…

ts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

nd other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its n…

To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.

To stab with a bayonet.

Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

bitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

is at best very short. -- For best, finally. [Obs.] "Those constitutions . . . are now established for best, and not to be mended." Milton. -- To get the best of, to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. -- To make the best of. (a) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advanta…

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

nce; a professional assassin or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means. Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks. Shak.