Word Finder - tierce

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The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).

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The service appointed for this hour.

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A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.

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A third.

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A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or 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 and queen is called tierce-major.

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

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

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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.)

Even in this peal, Taylors were not tuning the tierce to the theoretical value.

The hum and the tierce in the chimed bell do not affect the initial sensation of pitch, despite the loudness of these partials.

It does affect the timbre - bells with a major tierce have a clearly different quality than those with minor tierces.

In bell founding these partials have acquired their own names of hum tone, prime, tierce, quint, and nominal.

From the chart, one can see that the nominal, tierce and prime were barely touched, the hum lowered a little.

His swell mixtures often had a tierce rank in the tenor octave but this was a hangover of the 18th Century English organ.

It is carried up forty-three notes without a break, which is an excellent feature in a tierce mixture of only three ranks.