bank | noun (n.) A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. |
| noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
| noun (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. |
| noun (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. |
| noun (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
| noun (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
| noun (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. |
| noun (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. |
| noun (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
| noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
| noun (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
| noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
| noun (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital. |
| noun (n.) 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. |
| noun (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
| noun (n.) A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc. |
| noun (n.) The lateral inclination of an aeroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45¡ is easy; a bank of 90¡ is dangerous. |
| verb (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. |
| verb (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand. |
| verb (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
| verb (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
| verb (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker. |
| verb (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker. |
| verb (v. i.) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like. |
blank | noun (n.) Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. |
| noun (n.) A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. |
| noun (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. |
| noun (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. |
| noun (n.) The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. |
| noun (n.) Aim; shot; range. |
| noun (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. |
| noun (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. |
| noun (n.) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." |
| adjective (a.) Of a white or pale color; without color. |
| adjective (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. |
| adjective (a.) Utterly confounded or discomfited. |
| adjective (a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. |
| adjective (a.) Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. |
| adjective (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. |
| adjective (a.) Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. |
| verb (v. t.) To make void; to annul. |
| verb (v. t.) To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. |
crank | noun (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank. |
| noun (n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. |
| noun (n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word. |
| noun (n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. |
| noun (n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. |
| noun (n.) A sick person; an invalid. |
| noun (n.) Sick; infirm. |
| noun (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail. |
| noun (n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated. |
| noun (n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn. |
flank | noun (n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef. |
| noun (n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side. |
| noun (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. |
| noun (n.) The side of any building. |
| noun (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line. |
| verb (v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon. |
| verb (v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of. |
| verb (v. i.) To border; to touch. |
| verb (v. i.) To be posted on the side. |
frank | noun (n.) A pigsty. |
| noun (n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note. |
| noun (n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. |
| noun (n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc. |
| noun (n.) Liberal; generous; profuse. |
| noun (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. |
| adjective (a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage. |
| adjective (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France. |
| adjective (a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant. |
| adjective (a.) A French coin. See Franc. |
| verb (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. |
| verb (v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense. |
| verb (v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. |
plank | noun (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer. |
| noun (n.) One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. |
| verb (v. t.) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting. |
| verb (v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. |
rank | noun (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers. |
| noun (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a). |
| noun (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral. |
| noun (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings. |
| noun (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. |
| noun (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank. |
| superlative (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. |
| superlative (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy. |
| superlative (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land. |
| superlative (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue. |
| superlative (superl.) Strong to the taste. |
| superlative (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite. |
| adverb (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently. |
| verb (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line. |
| verb (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. |
| verb (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank. |
| verb (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation. |
shank | noun (n.) See Chank. |
| verb (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. |
| verb (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. |
| verb (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. |
| verb (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. |
| verb (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. |
| verb (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button. |
| verb (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. |
| verb (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. |
| verb (v.) The body of a type. |
| verb (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. |
| verb (v.) A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks. |
| verb (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. |
| verb (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. |
burr | noun (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. |
| noun (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2. |
| noun (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5. |
| noun (n.) The sweetbread. |
| noun (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick. |
| noun (n.) A small circular saw. |
| noun (n.) A triangular chisel. |
| noun (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists. |
| noun (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head. |
| noun (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1. |
| noun (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. |
| noun (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down. |
| noun (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping. |
| noun (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear. |
| noun (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr. |
| noun (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8. |
| verb (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. |
burden | noun (n.) That which is borne or carried; a load. |
| noun (n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive. |
| noun (n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden. |
| noun (n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin. |
| noun (n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. |
| noun (n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds. |
| noun (n.) A birth. |
| noun (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. |
| noun (n.) The drone of a bagpipe. |
| noun (n.) A club. |
| verb (v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load. |
| verb (v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. |
| verb (v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable). |