Tierce

[tiәs]

Definition

(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.

(a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

Typist: Lolita

Definition

n. a cask containing one-third of a pipe—that is 42 gallons: a sequence of three cards of the same colour: (mus.) a third: a thrust in fencing: (her.) a field tripartitely divided in three different tinctures: the third hour of the day or the office of that hour the terce.—ns. Tier′ceron (archit.) in vaulting a rib springing from the intersection of two other ribs; Tier′cet a stanza of three rhymed verses a triplet.

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