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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Treasury \Treas"ur*y\, n.; pl. {Treasuries}. [OE. tresorie, F.
     tr['e]sorerie.]
     1. A place or building in which stores of wealth are
        deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are
        deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray
        the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of


        deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. That department of a government which has charge of the
        finances.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge,
        wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's
        Treasury of Botany."
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. A treasure. [Obs.] --Marston.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Board of treasury}, the board to which is intrusted the
        management of all matters relating to the sovereign's
        civil list or other revenues. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
  
     {Treasury bench}, the first row of seats on the right hand of
        the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because
        occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief
        minister of the crown. [Eng.]
  
     {Treasury lord}. See {Lord high treasurer of England}, under
        {Treasurer}. [Eng.]
  
     {Treasury note} (U. S. Finance), a circulating note or bill
        issued by government authority from the Treasury
        Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the
        government.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  treasury
       n 1: the funds of a government or institution or individual [syn:
             {exchequer}]
       2: the government department responsible for collecting and
          managing and spending public revenues
       3: the British cabinet minister responsible for economic
          strategy [syn: {First Lord of the Treasury}]
       4: the federal department that collects revenue and administers
          federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in
          1789 [syn: {Department of the Treasury}, {Treasury
          Department}, {United States Treasury}]
       5: a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious
          objects can be kept safely

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  180 Moby Thesaurus words for "treasury":
     Fort Knox, Golconda, abundance, account, accumulation, advise,
     amassment, appraise, archives, armory, arsenal, attend, attic,
     available funds, backlog, balance in hand, bank, basement, bay,
     bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, budget, bunker, bursary,
     buttery, cache, care for, cargo dock, cash, cash in hand,
     cash register, cash supply, cashbox, cellar, chest, closet, coffer,
     coin box, collection, collogue, commissariat, commissary, conduct,
     confab, confabulate, conservatory, consider, consult, cornucopia,
     crate, crib, cumulation, cupboard, deal with, deliberate,
     depositary, depository, depot, do with, dock, doctor, drawer, dump,
     eldorado, estimate, evaluate, exchequer, fisc, funds, gallery,
     glory hole, go treat, godown, gold depository, gold mine, handle,
     heap, hoard, hold, huddle, hutch, immediate resources, inventory,
     larder, library, liquid assets, locker, lumber room, lumberyard,
     magasin, magazine, manage, mass, material, materials, materiel,
     mine, money chest, money in hand, moneys, munitions, museum, nurse,
     parley, penny bank, piggy bank, pile, play, plenitude, plenty,
     pork barrel, powwow, provisionment, provisions, public crib,
     public till, public treasury, public trough, rack, rate, rations,
     ready money, reason, regard, repertoire, repertory, repository,
     reservoir, resources, respect, rick, safe, safe-deposit box, serve,
     set up, shelf, shout, stack, stack room, stake, stand, stand treat,
     stock, stock room, stock-in-trade, stockpile, storage, store,
     storehouse, storeroom, stores, strong room, strongbox, study,
     subtreasury, supplies, supply base, supply depot, supply on hand,
     take, tank, the ready, think, till, treasure, treasure house,
     treasure room, treasure trove, treasure-house, treat, use, value,
     vat, vault, warehouse, weigh, wield, wine cellar
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Treasury
     (Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that
     there was a separate building so called. The name was given to
     the thirteen brazen chests, called "trumpets," from the form of
     the opening into which the offerings of the temple worshippers
     were put. These stood in the outer "court of the women." "Nine
     chests were for the appointed money-tribute and for the
     sacrifice-tribute, i.e., money-gifts instead of the sacrifices;
     four chests for freewill-offerings for wood, incense, temple
     decoration, and burnt-offerings" (Lightfoot's Hor. Heb.).
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TREASURY. The place where treasure is kept the office of a treasurer. The 
  term is more usually applied to the public than to a private treasury. Vide 
  Department of the Treasury o the United States. 
  
  

















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