Bank bill () 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.
Bank book () 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.
Banker (n.) 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.
Banker (n.) A money changer.
Banker (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
Banker (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
Banker (n.) The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.
Bankeress (n.) A female banker.
Banking (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.
Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.
Bank note () 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.
Bank note () A promissory note payable at a bank.
Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
Bankrupt (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
Bankrupt (n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.
Bankrupt (a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.
Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.
Bankrupt (a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.
Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
Bankrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Bankrupt
Bankrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrupt
Bankrupt (v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.
Bankruptcies (pl. ) of Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
Bankruptcy (n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
Bankruptcy (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
Bankside (n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
Bank-sided (a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.
Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n.
Banlieue (n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.
Banner (n.) A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
Banner (n.) A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
Banner (n.) Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
Bannered (a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners.
Banneret (n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
Banneret (n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
Banneret (n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Banneret (n.) A small banner.
Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
Bannition (n.) The act of expulsion.
Bannock (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
Banns (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
Banquet (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
Banquet (n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
Banqueted (imp. & p. p.) of Banquet
Banqueting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banquet
Banquet (v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
Banquet (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Banquet (v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.
Banquetter (n.) One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
Banquette (n.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
Banquette (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
Banshee (n.) Alt. of Banshie
Banshie (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
Banstickle (n.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
Bantam (n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
Bantam work () Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
Banteng (n.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
Bantered (imp. & p. p.) of Banter
Bantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banter
Banter (v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
Banter (v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
Banter (v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
Banter (v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
Banter (n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Banterer (n.) One who banters or rallies.
Bantingism (n.) A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
Banxring (n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Baobab (n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Baphomet (n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
Baptism (v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
Baptismal (a.) Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
Baptismally (adv.) In a baptismal manner.
Baptist (n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.
Baptisteries (pl. ) of Baptistry
-tries (pl. ) of Baptistry
Baptistery (n.) Alt. of Baptistry
Baptistry (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
Baptistry (n.) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
Baptistic (a.) Of or for baptism; baptismal.
Baptistical (a.) Baptistic.
Baptizable (a.) Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.
Baptization (n.) Baptism.
Baptized (imp. & p. p.) of Baptize
Baptizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baptize
Baptize (v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
Baptize (v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
Baptize (v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.
Baptizement (n.) The act of baptizing.
Baptizer (n.) One who baptizes.
Bar (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
Bar (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.
Bar (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Bar (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
Bar (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
Bar (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.