Tierce
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
(2): ( n.) 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): ( n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
(6): ( n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
(7): ( a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; - said of an escutcheon.
King James Dictionary [2]
TIERCE, n. ters. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe, that is, forty gallons or it may be the measure.
1. In Ireland, a weight by which provisions are sold. The tierce of beef for the navy, Isaiah 304 lb. and for India, 336 lb. 2. In music, a third. 3. In gaming, a sequence of three cards of the same color. 4. A thrust in fencing.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
the service for the third hour, or nine o'clock in the morning, in the early Church. (See Matin); (See Nones); (See Vespers).
