Balance (n.) An apparatus for weighing. |
Balance (n.) Act of weighing mentally |
Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales. |
Balance (n.) The state of being in equipoise |
Balance (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account |
Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary). |
Balance (n.) The constellation Libra. |
Balance (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September. |
Balance (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S. |
Balance (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights |
Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling |
Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion |
Balance (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc. |
Balance (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account |
Balance (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal |
Balance (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits |
Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally |
Balance (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass |
Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side |
Balance (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force |
Balance (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back. |
Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock |
Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance). |
Balance wheel () A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine |
Bank (n.) A bench |
Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level |
Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse |
Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea |
Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft |
Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about |
Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up |
Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley |
Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
Bank (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. |
Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
Bank (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 |
Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business |
Bank (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. |
Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank |
Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank |
Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill () 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. |