a bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.-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.-a steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.-the margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.-an elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of newfoundland.-the face of the coal at which miners are working.-a deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.-the ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.-to raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.-to heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.-to pass by the banks of.-a bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.-the bench or seat upon which the judges sit.-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.-a sort of table used by printers.-a bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.-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.-the building or office used for banking purposes.-a fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.-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.-in certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.-to deposit in a bank.-to keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.-to deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.