tercellenet (terselen)

[OF. *tercel in (?), Nor must you expect from high antiquity the distinctions of eyes and ramage hawks;. nor yet what eggs produce the different hawks, or when they lay three eggs, that the first produceth a female and large hawk, the second of a middler sort, and the third a smaller bird, tercellene or ta el of the male sex. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, v. tercentenary (ter-sen'te-nā-ri), a. and n. [L. ter, thrice (see ter ), + centenarius, pertaining to a hundred: see centenary.] I. a. Comprising three hundred years; including or relating to the interval of three hundred years. II. n. A day observed as a festival in commemoration of some event, as the birth of a great man, or a decisive victory, that happened three hundred years before: as, the Shakspere tercentenary . tercentennial (tèr-sen-ten'i-al), a. and n. [L. ter, thrice, + centum, hundred, + ann us, year: see centennial.] Same as tercentenary. At the tercentennial celebration of Presbyterianism, in Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1872,. was displayed the American flag cro ed with the Covenanters' flag of blue silk. Preble, Hist. Flag, p. 140.