† ˈthesaur, -aure Chiefly Sc. Obs.
[ad. L. thesaurus: cf. Prov. thesaur, OCat. tesor, Sp., It. tesoro, Pg. thesouro.]
= treasure.
| 1491 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) II. 230/1 Stelaris [and] concelaris, of the said gold or thessaure. a 1510 Douglas K. Hart ii. 340 Quhair is the thesaure now that ȝe have woun? 1532 Addr. fr. Convoc. (MS. Cleop. E. VI. lf. 274 b), The thesaure of this realme hath beene carried and conueyhed beyond the mountaines to the coort of rome. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 7 Mony hidd thesauris. Ibid. v. 303 Quhat proffit sa euir cumis of that feild..sall cum in to the kingis Thesaur. |
b. Comb. ˈthesaurhouse, treasury.
| 1488 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 85 margin, Thir boxis put in the Thesaurhous in the grete kist nerrest the windo. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) 264 The palice of Halyruidhous..the Thesaurhous, and vtheris places. |