one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; " it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 3rd base; " he is playing third"

the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle; " you shouldn't try to start in third gear"

the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; " a simple harmony written in major thirds"

following the second position in an ordering or series; " a distant third"; " he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"

being one of three equal parts; " a third share of the money"

The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

The sixtieth part of a second of time.

The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

Next after the second; coming after two others; - the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.

The next after the second; the ordinal of three; denoting one of three equal parts.

One of three equal parts; a third part of anything; in music, an interval of three diatonic steps.

The last of three.

One of three equal parts.

Next after the second.

One of three parts; an interval of three, or of four, semitones in music.

Next in order after the second.

Thirdly.

The first after the second; the ordinal of three.

The third part of anything: the sixtieth part of a second of time; an interval containing three diatonic sounds and two degrees or intervals.

The ordinal of three.

One part of three; the 1- 60th part of second; in music, an interval containing three notes of the scale, the first and third being only sounded.

This third eye was very busy and saw more than both the other two put together. – The City Curious by Jean de Bosschère

A second and a third time was this repeated. – Down the Slope by James Otis

We'll drop it for a time and go to the third call. – Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage

But it was the third day before he saw her alone. – The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

I will be your second- I beg your pardon, your third husband, probably your last." – The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

Third, Do you believe that when you die you will live again as a conscious intelligence, knowing who you are and who other people are? – The Young Man and the World by Albert J. Beveridge

Third World food . – Life Blood by Thomas Hoover

But have we reached the third act? – Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens

A. B. Savory died the next Third- day evening, and his remains were interred on the First- day following. – Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

" Here we are," said Jimmy, as they entered the third place. – The Real Adventure by Henry Kitchell Webster

You must let me be your third daughter! – A College Girl by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

The third was not the least. – Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown

I wish to present my third brother to you! – The Chinese Fairy Book by Various

He would take a third share if Pat and Alec would each take a third. – The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Thornton W. Burgess

You leave the Siparouni to the right hand, and on the third day come to a little hill. – Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

Dr. Adams allowed him to be up no more than a few hours on the third day. – The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones

In this third spring my Eunice was born- my only baby, and while she stayed with us she made the world a better place for us all. – Eunice by Margaret Murray Robertson

A third time she said: " Look around, and see who is coming now." – Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin

This was the third day since his cotton began to need water. – The Desert Fiddler by William H. Hamby

He says that he shall be here on the third. – Victorian Short Stories by Various