Part 897

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Music)</fld> <def>A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Bank</h1> <Xpage=116>

<hw>Bank</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>banque</ets>, It. <ets>banca</ets>, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. <ets>bench</ets>; cf. G. <ets>bank</ets> bench, OHG. <ets>banch</ets>. See <er>Bench</er>, and cf. <er>Banco</er>, <er>Beach</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The building or office used for banking purposes.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Let it be no <b>bank</b> or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Gaming)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.</def>

<cs><col>Bank credit</col>, <cd>a credit by which a person who has give<?/ the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to <?/ certain extent agreed upon.</cd> -- <col>Bank of deposit</col>, <cd>a bank which receives money for safe keeping.</cd> -- <col>Bank of issue</col>, <cd>a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bank</h1> <Xpage=116>

<hw>Bank</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deposit in a bank.</def>

<h1>Bank</h1> <Xpage=116>

<hw>Bank</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.</def>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.</def>

<h1>Bankable</h1> <Xpage=117>

<hw>Bank"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Receivable at a bank.</def>

<h1>Bank bill</h1> <Xpage=117>

<hw>Bank" bill`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency.</def>

<h1>Bank book</h1> <Xpage=117>

<hw>Bank" book`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank.</def>

<h1>Banker</h1> <Xpage=117>

<hw>Bank"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[See the nouns <er>Bank</er> and the verbs derived from them.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A money changer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.</def>