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 been carried and conueyhed beyond the mountaines to the coort of rome.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. 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. Thesaurhouse, 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, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., X. (S.T.S.), 264. The palice of Halyruidhous … the Thesaurhous, and vtheris places.
