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{ } prop. n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ala wing + truncus trunk. ] (Zool.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'agky`lwsis, fr. 'agkyloy^n to crook, stiffen, fr. 'agky`los crooked: cf. F. ankylose. ] 1. (Med.) The process of formation of a stiff joint; also, the abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint which has become stiff. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

2. (Anat.) The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Turkey. Population (2000) = 2, 890, 025. [ PJC ]

n. [ D. anker: cf. LL. anceria, ancheria. ] A liquid measure in various countries of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 81/2 imperial gallons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Prof. Anker of Austria: cf. F. ankérite, G. ankerit. ] (Min.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Egypt. ] (Egypt. Archæol.) 1. A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. an amulet or piece of jewelry shaped like an ankh{ 1 }. [ PJC. ]

n. [ OE. ancle, anclow, AS. ancleow; akin to Icel. ökkla, ökli, Dan. and Sw. ankel, D. enklaauw, enkel, G. enkel, and perh. OHG. encha, ancha thigh, shin: cf. Skr. anga limb, anguri finger. Cf. Haunch. ] The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ankle bone, the bone of the ankle; the astragalus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having ankles; -- used in composition; as, well-ankled. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. see anklets. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. 1. socks that reach just above the ankle.
Syn. -- anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Hind., fr. Skr. a&ndot_;kuça. ] An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [ India ] Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & i. Same as Anchylose. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. Same as Anchylosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Ankylostoma, var. of Agchylostoma, generic name of one genus of the parasitic nematodes. ] (Med.) A disease caused by the hookworm parasites of the genus Ancylostoma (especially Ancylostoma duodenale), and Necator americanus. Typically, infection in humans occurs in the small intestine. In the small intestine they suck the blood from the wall and, when present in large numbers, produce a severe anaemia. Called also miner's anaemia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anaemia, Egyptian chlorosis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

v. t. To repent; to displease; to disgust. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ OF. banc, LL. bancus. See Bank, n. ] A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. [ 1913 Webster ]

In banc,
In banco (the ablative of bancus),
In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Aëronautics) The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

7. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

8. The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn. [ PJC ]

Bank beaver (Zool.), the otter. [ Local, U.S. ] --
Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Banked(bă&nsmacr_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Banking. ] 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. “Banked well with earth.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass by the banks of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves. [ PJC ]

To bank a fire,
To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See Bench. ] 1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. [ 1913 Webster ]

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep
Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) 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. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Printing) A sort of table used by printers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See Bench, and cf. Banco, Beach. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The building or office used for banking purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gaming) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; specifically, an organization that stores biological products for medical needs; as, a blood bank, an organ bank, a sperm bank. [ PJC ]

Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. --
Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping. --
Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deposit in a bank. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Aëronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Receivable at a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it becomes due. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.[ See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A money changer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Crabb. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female banker. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus consisting of giant shipworms.
Syn. -- genus Bankia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The business of a bank or of a banker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States popularly called a bank bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A promissory note payable at a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.
Syn. -- bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. Depend on; be confident of. [ PJC ]

n. 1. the money carried on one's person. ”He shot his bankroll on a bob-tailed nag.”
Syn. -- roll, wad. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. one's total supply of money; funds. [ PJC ]

v. t. To pay the costs of; as, Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bankrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bankrupting. ] To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. banqueroute, fr. It. bancarotta bankruptcy; banca bank (fr. OHG. banch, G. bank, bench) + rotta broken, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. At Florence, it is said, the bankrupt had his bench (i.e., money table) broken. See 1st Bank, and Rupture, n. ] 1. (Old Eng. Law) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. M‘Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England, until the year 1861 none but a “trader” could be made a bankrupt; a non-trader failing to meet his liabilities being an “insolvent”. But this distinction was abolished by the Bankruptcy Act of 1861. The laws of 1841 and 1867 of the United States relating to bankruptcy applied this designation bankrupt to others besides those engaged in trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). “Bankrupt in gratitude.” Sheridan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surrender of his property, and is free from fraud, may be discharged from the legal obligation of his debts. See Insolvent, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bankruptcies 1. The state of being actually or legally bankrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of becoming a bankrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Complete loss; -- followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under 1st Bank, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bethought p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking. ] [ AS. beþencan; pref. be- + þencan to think. See Think. ] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bethought me of another fault. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We bethink a means to break it off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To recollect; remember; reflect. [ 1913 Webster ]