D defs.my
Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

banknote

/(băṉk"nōt`)/ · bank·note · IPA /ˈbæŋknəʊt/
01 A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4.
  1. 1.
    A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4.
  2. 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.] See: Bank bill
  3. 3.
    A promissory note payable at a bank.
  4. 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.