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ontaining much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."

Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.

A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York. [U. S.]

Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

ly with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

, a church, etc. Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire Have cost a mass of public treasury. Shak.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

ire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. -- To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United…

To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use. It was judged that he should be banished and his whole estate confiscated and seized. Bacon.

is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In al…

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the treasury.

fficial duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

r consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

te having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low. Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron. -- Chancellor of the exchequer. See under Chancellor. -- Exchequer bills or bonds (Eng.…

To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

A public or state treasury. Burke.

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

l property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.