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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.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

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.

Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern. The whole concern, all connected with a particular affair or business.

A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.

A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.

the national anthem of England. -- National bank, the official common name of a class of banking corporations established under the laws of the United States. -- National flag. See under Flag. -- National guard, a body of militia, or a local military organization, as in Paris during the French Revolution, or as cert…

The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang] Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. -- Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bo…

In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve (25 per cent) than the minimum (15 per cent) required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the reserve cities (specifically called central rese…

formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.