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Tierce   /tɪrs/   Listen
noun
Tierce  n.  
1.
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.
2.
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
3.
(Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
4.
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
5.
(Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
6.
(R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.


adjective
Tierce  adj.  (Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.





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"Tierce" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fowlis, son-in-law of the said Katherine Ross, "seeking all ways and means to possess himself in certain her tierce and conjunct fee lands of the Barony of Fowlis, and to dispossess her therefrom" had first "persued certain of her tenants and servants by way of deed for their bodily harm and slaughter," and then, "finding that he could not prevail that way, neither by sundry ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie
... saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through. And at sight of the conclusion Pasquini let go his hold on life, buried his face in the grass, quivered a ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... Peters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, wrote to a Philadelphia friend, "I cannot purchase any coffee without taking, too, one bill a tierce of Claret & Sour, and at L6.8 per gall.... I have been trying day for day, & never could get a grain of Coffee so as to sell it at the limited price these six weeks. It may be bought, ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... of theme and counter-theme, of harmonies and resultant sounds, of consecutive ninths and tierce major. When they had labeled the succeeding harmonies which made up a page of music, they proudly mopped their brows: they thought they had explained the music, and almost believed that they had written it. As a matter of fact, they had only ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... with authorities or traditional formulas. These gentlemen it is often difficult to silence. We can easily contend with combatants who wield their weapons according to the rules laid down by the schools; we know what to expect, and how to parry a quart or a tierce. But an opponent who strikes regardless of all rule is often hard to manage, and we get a scar where it is least expected or deserved. In this wise I was served by an unknown opponent, who wrote to me from a place in the neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, ...
— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller


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