Tierce

ters or ters. n. A cask whose content is 1-Sd piece of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of 42 wine, or 3.5 imperial, gallons; a cask for rising packing salt provisions for shipping, containing 336 of pounds. (Mus.) A third: see Third, under Three. there- (Card-playing.) A sequence of 3 cards of the same flood suit. A particular sort of thrust in fencing. (Rom. Cath. Ch.) The 3d hour of the day, from 8 to 9 or dia. m.: the service appropriate to it. — Tier'cel, cur- Tierce'let, ters'let^jj. A male hawk or falcon. — Tier ceroon'', ters-roon/', n. The offspring of a mui. To lat to and a white. — Tier'cet. ter'- or tSr's et, n. out of (Poetry) A tiiplet: 3 lines rhyming together. — anchor Tierstat, te-arz'a'ta/, n. The 3d estate, or com or pert, monalty, in France, answering to the commons in and Great Britain, — disiing. fr. the nobles and clergy. An Tiff, tif, v. Liquor, or rather a small draught of liquor; an exa fit of anger or peevishne . — Tiffin, n. The above Anglo-Indian word for lunch.