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A public or state treasury. Burke.

Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue. The fiscal arreangements of government. A. Hamilton.

Capable of being confiscated; liable to forfeiture.

iated by the government to the public use; forfeited. Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

s of taking property or condemning it to be taken, as forfeited to the public use. The confiscations following a subdued rebellion. Hallam.

One who confiscates. Burke.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

ider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species. Eider down. Etym: [Cf. Icel. æ\'ebardun, Sw. eiderdun, Dan. ederduun.] Down of the eider duck, much sought after as an article of luxury.

hath made us spend much good. Chaucer. Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice. Shak. Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary. -- Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.] -- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.] -- Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note u…

, that is, instead of. The plan of extortion had been adopted in lieu of the scheme of confiscation. Burke.

as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol. In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations. A. Hamilton.

ad charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.

performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Bl…

A fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a Methodist church.

bolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. -- Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. -- Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. -- Gregorian year, Julian y…