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Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.

One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or c…

The office of treasurer.

A woman who is a treasurer. [R.]

A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.

To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.

The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury. [U. S.]

An assistant treasurer.

To bring forth or give up, as things previously treasured. "The quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory." J. Mitford.

Deprived of treasure. [Obs.] Shak.

receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

In addition; besides; as well; further; too. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matt. vi. 20.

collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

The state of being appointed to somappointment of treasurer.

affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. Top this treasure a curse is attached. Bayard Taylor.

To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

t or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

nted; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Milton.