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noun

Treasure n.

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. "This treasure hath fortune unto us given."

A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. "We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey."

That which is very much valued. "Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me." "From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure."

Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines.

verb

Treasure v. t. (past & past part. treasured; pres. part. treasuring) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

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Etymology of 'Treasure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Treasure" Quotes from Famous Books

... not well for the parent to lead his child to see such things in literature, to search for them, and when they are found to treasure them and bring them for mutual enjoyment ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

... riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed; then wisdom, honor, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure, Rest in the bottom lay. For, if I should, said he, Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be. Yet ...

— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... is free from licence or suggestion. Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino's sonnets are not held up as the representative art of this pupil of Raphael, nor are the vulgarities of Rowlandson, Hogarth, George Morland set against their better attempts. Collectors treasure the engravings of the eighteenth-century editions des fermiers-generaux for their capital workmanship, not for their licentious themes. But Rops is always the Rops of the Pornocrates! After discussing him with some amateurs you are forced to realise that it is his plates in which he ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... is known only to the Indians, who are compelled to secrecy by awful oaths, or fear of death from their chief or members of their band. At any rate, there is always a profound mystery connected with the hidden treasure, that envelops it with a tinge of romance and a spice of danger to those who seek to break the spell and lift the veil. There is also just enough known about it, which has leaked out through some obscure channel, to lend some slight probability ...

— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau

... What a fool he had been to suppose that such treasure as this would stay long in a hiding-place so obvious. He who had made a luxurious living writing tales of the chase of gems and plate and gold had bungled the thing from the first. He could hammer out on a typewriter wild plots and counter-plots—with ...

— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers

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