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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.)

Examples of tierces in a Sentence

It is usually sold in " tierces," that is, casks containing about 'o cwt.

The dried or " finished " soda-ash is ground to a pretty fine powder and is packed into wooden casks or " tierces," holding from io to about 20 cwt.

The next interesting point is that these bells typically have very quiet tierces - look at the intensity profiles compared with those at Tewkesbury.

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

One suspects these major tierces in older bells occur through accident rather than design.

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