📖 Definitions of "Tierce"
noun
- 1
The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
- 2
The service appointed for this hour.
- 3
A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
noun
- 1
A third.
- 2
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.
- 3
The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- 4
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
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