Dictionary entry

Fiscal (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fis″cal, n. 1. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exchequer. Bacon.

2. A treasurer. H. Swinburne.

3. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; — called also procurator fiscal.

4. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.