tierce (ters)

[Also, in some senses, terce; The latitude... is sixtie eight degrees and a terce . Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 279. The way is long, and difficult the road, And now the sun to middle- tierce returns. Long fellow , tr. of Dante's Inferno, xxxiv. 96. 2. Same as terce , 4. In shorte tyme was grete occisioun, and longe it endured, from tierce in to noone, and than sparbled the saisnes and turned bakke towarde her chyuachie. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 274. 3. A liquid measure equal to one third of a pipe. See pipel, 8. Also terce.-4. A cask intermediate in size between a barrel and a hogshead: as, a tierce of sugar; a tierce of rice or of salted provisions.-5. In music, same as third. (a) The fourth harmonic of any given tone - that is, the major third above the second octave. (b) In organ- build ing, a mutation-stop giving tones two octaves and a third above the normal pitch of the s used. 6. In card - playing, a sequence of three cards. -7. In fencing, the third of a series of eight points and parries, beginning with prime. A thrust in tierce is a thrust, with the knuckles upward, at the upper breast, which, from the ordinary position of engagement, the letter the file touching is given after pa ing foil to side of opponent's pon. A parry in tierce guards this blow. It is produced by turning the hand knuckles upward and carrying it a few inches to the right without lowering hand or point. To reign is restle fence, Tierce, quart, and trickery. Tennyson, Queen Mary, v. 5. 8. In her., a fe e composed of three triangles, usually of three different tinctures: a bearing rare in English heraldry.-Arch of the tierce or third point, an arch consisting of two arcs of a circle intersecting at the top; a pointed arch. - En tierce, in her., divided in three: said of the field. Compare def. 8.Quart and tierce. See quart2. - Tierce bendwise, in her., a bend composed of three triangles, usually of three different tinctures: a bearing rare in English heraldry. Tierce major in whist, a sequence of ace, king, and queen.-Tierce point, the vertex of an equilateral triangle. Also called third point. Gwilt. tiercé (tēr-sā ́), a. [Heraldic F., see tierce.] In her., divided into three parts of three different tinctures. The field may be so divided either fe e wise, palewise, or bendwise, which must be ex three compartments bendwise. pre ed in the blazon: thus, tierce in bend means divided tiercelt, tiercelett, n. See tercel, tercelet. tierceron rceron (ter'se-ron), (ter'se-ro n. [F.: see tierce.] In vaulting, a secondary rib spring medieval vaulting, a secondary from an intersection of two other ribs. The additional ribs, tiernes, tiercerons , etc., which appear in the later forms of vaulting, more especially in England, are mere surface ribs having no real function. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 18. tiercet (tēr'- or ter's et), n. [ IMG:content-0411.png:[blocks in formation] comes in. tie-rod (tī'rod), n. 1. A rod used to bind longitudinal railway-sleepers to one another: same as cro - tie.-2. In arch., bridge - building, etc., a rod used to draw and bind together parts of a structure; a binding-rod. Such rods are sometimes made like long bolts with a head at one end and a screw and nut at the other; sometimes they have a screw and nut at each end. Quite commonly they are made in two parts, each with a head at one end and a screw-thread at the other, the threaded ends being united by a turnbuckle for drawing up the rod to the required tension. tierras (tyer'as), n. pl. [Sp., pl. of tierra, earth: see terra.] In mining, fine or pulverulent ores tierras more or le intermixed with rock, which are made up into adobes or bricks before being treated in the furnace; in Mexico, generally, any inferior pulverulent ores. [New Almaden quicksilver-mines.]