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 () A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

Bankrupt () 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 () 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 () 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 () Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

Bankrupt () Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

Bankrupt () Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

Bankrupted () of Bankrupt

Bankrupting () of Bankrupt

Bankrupt () To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

Bankruptcies () of Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy () The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

Bankruptcy () The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.

Bankruptcy () Complete loss; -- followed by of.

Bankside () The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

Bank-sided () Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.

Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n.

Banlieue () The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

Banner () A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

Banner () 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 () Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.

Bannered () Furnished with, or bearing, banners.

Banneret () Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

Banneret () A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

Banneret () A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

Banneret () A small banner.

Bannerol () A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Bannition () The act of expulsion.

Bannock () 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 () 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 () A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

Banquet () A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

Banqueted () of Banquet

Banqueting () of Banquet

Banquet () To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

Banquet () To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

Banquet () To partake of a dessert after a feast.

Banquetter () One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.

Banquette () A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

Banquette () A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

Banshee () Alt. of Banshie

Banshie () 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 () A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

Bantam () 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 () The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

Bantered () of Banter

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