Trēas'ūr-y, n.
(trēzh'yr-y), n. [Fr. trésorerie, Sp. & It. tesoreria, Pr. thezauraria.]
Sense 1. The same as TREASURE. [Obs.] Marston.
Sense 2. A place or building in which stores of wealth are reposted; 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.
Sense 3. Especially, that department of a government which has charge of the finances.
Sense 4. A repository of abundance.
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.—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, a lord-commissioner of the treasury. [Eng.]