Tierce

·noun The third tone of the scale. ·see Mediant.

II. Tierce ·noun A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

III. Tierce ·noun A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

IV. Tierce ·adj Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures;

— said of an Escutcheon.

V. Tierce ·noun The third hour of the day, or nine ·adj m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

VI. Tierce ·noun A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, ·etc., are packed for shipment.

VII. Tierce ·noun 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.