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

Subtriangular :: Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York..

Department :: Department (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official 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 instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics..

Issue :: Issue (n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury..

Raid :: Raid (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury..

Repertory :: Repertory (n.) A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.

Treasury :: Treasury (n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.

Seven-thirties :: Seven-thirties (n. pl.) A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded..

Deplete :: Deplete (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc..

Revenue :: Revenue (n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use..

Milreis :: Milreis (n.) A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills..

Thesaurus :: Thesaurus (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia..

Treasurer :: Treasurer (n.) 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 corporation..

Purse :: Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury..

Treasury :: Treasury (n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, Maunder's Treasury of Botany..

Fisc :: Fisc (n.) A public or state treasury.

Treasury :: Treasury (n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.

Exchequer :: Exchequer (n.) The department of state 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..

Unappropriated :: Unappropriated (a.) Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as, the unappropriated moneys in the treasury..

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