figurative. A repository of ‘treasures’; a thesaurus; a ‘treasure-house’, ‘storehouse’.

figurative and in figurative contexts. Anything likened to a treasury; a store or collection of anything considered precious, beautiful, etc.

transferred and figurative. Treasury. Cf. ‘exchequer’.

transferred. The pecuniary possessions, the ‘cash-box’, ‘purse’, of a private person, a society, etc.

The place in which the money belonging to a public institution is kept; treasury, coffer. Also transferred: the fund of money itself.