Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BANK'ER, n.

1. One who keeps a bank; one who trafficks in money, receives and remits money, negociates bills of exchange, &c.
2. A vessel employed in the codfishery on the banks of Newfoundland. – Mar. Dict.

BANK'ING, n.

The business or employment of a banker; the business of establishing a common fund for lending money, discounting notes, issuing bills, receiving deposits, collecting the money on notes deposited, negociating bills of exchange, &c.

BANK'ING, ppr.

Raising a mound or bank; inclosing with a bank. When we speak of restraining water, we usually call it banking; when we speak of defending the land, we call it imbanking. – Encyc.

BANK'RUPT, a.

Having committed acts of bankruptcy; unable to pay just debts; insolvent.

BANK'RUPT, n. [Fr. banqueroute; Sp. bancarrota, bankruptcy, bank and Sp. and Port. roto, It. rotto, broken; Eng. rout, defeat. This may signify bench-broken, or bank-broken; most probably the latter, referring to the fund or stock. The last syllable is the Latin ruptus contracted; Norm. roupt, rous, broken.]

1. A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. – Blackstone.
2. In a less technical sense, a trader who fails or becomes unable to pay his just debts; an insolvent trader. In strictness, no person but a trader can be a bankrupt. Bankruptcy is applied to merchants and traders; insolvency, to other persons.

BANK'RUPT, v.t.

To break one in trade; to make insolvent.

BANK'RUPT-CY, n.

1. The state of being a bankrupt, or insolvent; inability to pay all debts.
2. The act of becoming a bankrupt; the act of renders one's self a bankrupt, as by absconding or otherwise; failure in trade.

BANK'RUPT-ED, pp.

Rendered insolvent.

BANK'RUPT-ING, ppr.

Breaking in trade; rendering insolvent.

BANK'RUPT-LAW, n.

A law, which, upon a bankrupt's surrendering all his property to commissioners for the benefit of his creditors, discharges him from the payment of his debts, and all liability to arrest or suit for the same, and secures his future acquired property from a liability to the payment of his past debts.

BANK'RUPT-SYS-TEM, n.

A system of laws and legal proceedings in regard to bankrupts and their property.

BANK'-STOCK, n.

A share or shares in the capital stock of a bank.

BAN'NER, n. [Fr. banniere; W. baner; It. bandiera; Sp. bandera; G. fahne and panier; D. vaan and vaandel; from Goth. fana, cloth; Sax. fana; L. pannus; Ir. fuan, cloth.]

1. A square flag; a military ensign; the principal standard of a prince or state. – Encyc.
2. A streamer borne at the end of a lance or elsewhere. – Johnson.
3. In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous corol. – Martyn.

BAN'NER-ED, a.

Furnished with or bearing banners. – Milton. Shield the strong foes, and rake the bannered shore. – Barlow.

BAN'NER-ET, n. [Fr. from banner.]

1. A knight made in the field. Bannerets formerly constituted an order of knights or feudal lords, who led their vassals to battle under their own flags. On the day of battle, the candidates presented their flags to the king or general, who cut off the train or skirt, and made it square. They were then called knights of the square flag. They were a middle order between barons and simple knights. – Spelman. Encyc.
2. The highest officer in some of the Swiss republics.

BAN'NE-ROL, n. [See BANDROL.]

BAN'NOCK, n. [Ir. boinneog.]

A cake made of oatmeal or peas-meal, baked on an iron plate over the fire; used in Scotland, and the northern counties of England. – Johnson.

BAN'OY, n.

A species of hawk, somewhat larger than the English sparrow hawk; the back and wings yellow, and the belly white; a native of the Philippine isles. – Dict. of Nat. Hist.

BAN'QUET, n. [Fr. banquet; Arm. bancqed or banvez; It. banchetto, a little seat, a feast; Sp. banqueta, a stool with three legs; banquete, a banquet. From these words, it would appear that banquet is a sitting, and hence a feast; and not, as supposed, from the oriental פנק, فَنَقَ, to feed or bring up delicately.]

A feast; a rich entertainment of meat and drink. – Esther v. Job xli. Amos vi.

BAN'QUET, v.i.

To feast; to regale one's self with good eating and drinking. – Shak.

BAN'QUET, v.t.

To treat with a feast, or rich entertainment. – Shak.

BAN'QUET-ED, pp.

Feasted; richly entertained at the table.

BAN'QUET-ER, n.

1. A feaster; one who lives deliciously.
2. One who makes feasts, or rich entertainments.

BAN'QUET-ING, n.

A feast; luxurious living; rich entertainment. – 1 Pet. iv.

BAN'QUET-ING, ppr.

1. Feasting; entertaining with rich fare.
2. Partaking of rich fare.