fisc

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fisc - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fisc \Fisc\ (f[i^]sk), n. [F. fisc, fr. L. fiscus basket, money
     basket, treasury; prob. akin to fascis bundle. See Fasces.]
     A public or state treasury. --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

fisc - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fisc
      n 1: a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury;
           originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's
           private purse

fisc - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  FISC, civil law. The treasury of a prince. The public treasury. Hence to 
  confiscate a thing, is to appropriate it to the fisc. Paillet, Droit Public, 
  21, n, says that fiscus, in the Roman law, signified the treasure of the 
  prince, and aerarium, the treasure of the state. But this distinction was 
  not observed in France. See Law 10, ff. De jure Fisci.