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Third   /θərd/   Listen
adjective
Third  adj.  
1.
Next after the second; coming after two others; the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. "The third night."
2.
Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
Third estate.
(a)
In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons.
(b)
In France, the tiers état. See Tiers etat.
Third order (R. C. Ch.), an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, n., 1.
Third person (Gram.), the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7.
Third sound. (Mus.) See Third, n., 3.



noun
Third  n.  
1.
The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
2.
The sixtieth part of a second of time.
3.
(Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
4.
pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Major third (Mus.), an interval of two tones.
Minor third (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half.






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... way toward the East India Sea; for the great and famous rivers of Volga, Tanis and Dwina have three heads near joynd, and yet the one falleth into the Caspian Sea, the other into the Euxine Sea, and the third into the Polonian Sea." For this information, the Virginia adventurers were indebted to the Muscovy Company, with which Captain Christopher Newport, who commanded the ships dispatched to Virginia, had formerly served. It was a good enough ...
— The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 • Wesley Frank Craven

... action as it cut short his life. Before Wright even tottered, before he loosed the gun, Sampson leaped behind him, clasped him with his left arm, quick as lightning jerked the gun from both clutching fingers and sheath. I shot at Sampson, then again, then a third time. All my bullets sped into the upheld nodding Wright. Sampson had protected himself with the body of the dead man. I had seen red flashes, puffs of smoke, had heard quick reports. Something stung ...
— The Rustlers of Pecos County • Zane Grey

... say now that for the brand and the range stock and the home ranch, and all the hay lands and ditches that we put in so long ago, they'll give me three million eight hundred thousand dollars, a third of it in real money and the rest secured on the place. What ...
— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough

... Bill hissed off this third passenger. The crow rose on its toes, let the boat slide away from under him, and followed croaking dismal ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various

... business is a source of profit to the farmer of Illinois and Missouri. Pork, beef, corn, corn-meal, flour, potatoes, butter, hay, &c. in vast quantities, go to supply these plantations. In laying in their stores, the sugar planters usually purchase one barrel of second or third quality of beef or pork per annum, for each laborer. Large drafts for sugar mills, engines and boilers, are made upon the Cincinnati and Pittsburg iron foundries. Mules and horses are driven ...
— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck


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