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n. Ecclesiastical The third of the seven canonical hours. No longer in liturgical use.

n. Ecclesiastical The time of day appointed for this service, usually the third hour after sunrise.

n. A measure of liquid capacity, equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 liters).

n. Games A sequence of three cards of the same suit.

n. Sports The third position from which a parry or thrust can be made in fencing.

n. Music An interval of a third.

n. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

n. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

n. The third tone of the scale. See mediant.

n. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.

n. The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

n. An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.

n. The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

n. One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

n. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

n. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

n. The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

n. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

n. A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

n. The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

adj. Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

n. A third; a third part.

n. Same as terce, 4.

n. A liquid measure equal to one third of a pipe. See pipe, 8. Also terce.

n. A cask intermediate in size between a barrel and a hogshead: as, a tierce of sugar; a tierce of rice or of salted provisions.

n. In music, same as third.

n. In card-playing, a sequence of three cards.

n. In fencing, the third of a series of eight points and parries, beginning with prime.

n. In heraldry, a fesse composed of three triangles, usually of three different tinctures: a bearing rare in English heraldry.

In heraldry, divided into three parts of three different tinctures.

n. the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.

n. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

n. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

"Once the Duke thrust in tierce and Jack's sword arm wavered an instant, and a splash of crimson appeared on his sleeve."

canonical hour    simple fraction    common fraction    digit    figure   

en tierce    tierce point    third point    quart and tierce    tierce major    tierce bendwise   

mediant   

Peirce   

hogshead    d'hote    half-bottle    newel    carrieth    jubilance    appartient    smutty    parlent    fournit