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														A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a
   tribunal or court. | 
						
											
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														A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the
   surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of
   earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. | 
						
											
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														A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a
   ravine. | 
						
											
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														The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a
   lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. | 
						
											
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														An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal,
   shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. | 
						
											
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														The face of the coal at which miners are working. | 
						
											
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														A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water
   level. | 
						
											
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														The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to
   bank. | 
						
											
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														To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or
   fortify with a bank; to embank. | 
						
											
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														To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. | 
						
											
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														To pass by the banks of. | 
						
											
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														A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. | 
						
											
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														The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. | 
						
											
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														The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting
   to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a
   sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. | 
						
											
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														A sort of table used by printers. | 
						
											
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														A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an
   organ. | 
						
											
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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. | 
						
											
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														The building or office used for banking purposes. | 
						
											
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														A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in
   transacting business; a joint stock or capital. | 
						
											
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														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. | 
						
											
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														In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the
   players are allowed to draw. | 
						
											
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														To deposit in a bank. | 
						
											
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														To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. | 
						
											
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														To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a
   banker. |