TIERCE
\tˈi͡əs], \tˈiəs], \t_ˈiə_s]\
Definitions of TIERCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
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The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
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A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
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A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
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The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
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Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; - said of an escutcheon.
By Oddity Software
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A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
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The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
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A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
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The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
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A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
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Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; - said of an escutcheon.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A cask whose content is one-third of a pipe or 42 gallons; also the measure; the interval of a third; a sequence of three cards of the same colour; a thrust in fencing; a field divided into three parts.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A cask whose contents are one-third of a pipe-viz., forty-two gallons; in gaming, a sequence of three cards of the same colour; a particular thrust in fencing.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French, Latin] A cask whose content is one-third of a pipe, that is 42 wine gallons ;-also , a liquid measure of 42 wine, or 35 imperial gallons;- a cask for packing salt provisions for shipping, containing 336 pounds or 304 pounds;- sequence of three cards of the same suit;-a particular sort of thrust in fencing.
