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One who conducts 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.

A female banker. Thackeray.

The menhaden.

The menhaded.

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

elonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

ce; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [Obs.]

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.

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

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

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

of credit. See under Bill. -- Letter of credit, a letter or notification addressed by a banker to his correspondent, informing him that the person named therein is entitled to draw a certain sum of money; when addressed to several different correspondents, or when the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several…

afe keeping; somthing intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. -- Bill of exchange. See under Bill. -- Exchange broker. See under Broker. -- Par of exchange, the established value of…

A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.…