treasure flower (trezhurflou"er)

A plant of the genus Gazania. G. Pavonia, distinguished as the peacock treasure - flower, has heads nearly 3 inches broad and of an orange color with a dark center, expanding only in sunshine. It is an ornament of the wayside in South Africa, and has long been cultivated in greenhouses. treasure-house (trezh'ur-hous), n. [ So in the Italian language the first that made it aspire to be a Treasure- house of Science were the Poets Dante, Boccace, and Petrarch. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie, p. 21. treasurer (trezh'ūr-ér), n. [Early mod. E. also threasurer ; tresorer , tresorere , tresourer , treserour , tresorer , tre sorier , thresorier , F. trésorier = Pr. thesaurier = Sp. tesorero = Pg. thesoureiro = It. tesoriere , thesaurarius , a treasurer, thesaurus , treasure: see treasure.] 1. One who or that which treasures or stores up; one who has charge of treasure. Out of this toune help me through your might, Sin that ye wole nat ben my tresorere. Chaucer , Purse, 1. 18. And when thy ruins shall disclaim To be the treasurer of his name, His name, that cannot die, shall be An everlasting monument to thee. B. Jonson, Epitaph on Drayton (Underwoods, xvii.). 2. Specifically, one who has the care of a 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 drawn by the proper authority; also, one who has the charge of collected funds, such as those belonging to incorporated companies or private societies. Now speke y wylle of tresurere [of a lord's household]. Husbonde and housewyf he is in fere; Of the resayuer he shalle resayue, The tresurer schalle gyfe alkyn wage. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 318. Lord high treasurer, formerly, a great officer of the British crown, who had under his charge and government all the sovereign's revenue. The duties of the lord high treasurer are now discharged by commi ioners entitled Lords of the Treasury. See treasury. Originally the chief financial minister of the Crown was the Lord High Treasurer , with whom was a ociated at You, Lady Muse, whom Jove the counsellor Begot of Memory, wisdom's treasure . Sir J. Davies, Dancing.