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Tierce   Listen
noun
Tierce  n.  
1.
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.
2.
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.
(Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
4.
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
5.
(Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
6.
(R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.






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"Tierce" Quotes from Famous Books



... sword en tierce; Loge's blade met his with strength and delicacy. The strength Cleggett was prepared for. The delicacy surprised him. But he was too much the master, too confident of his own powers, to trifle. He delivered ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... you must consult God upon it, to learn from Him how you are to put it in execution. Early to-morrow morning we will ask the Curate of St. Nicholas, who is known to be a most worthy man, to say a mass for us, and after having heard it, we will continue in prayer till the hour of Tierce." We see in this the mode of acting of one who has the spirit of God; he hurries nothing, he has recourse to prayer, and he makes use of the ordinary ...
— The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi • Father Candide Chalippe

... a hugeous silver book, in the shape of a half-tierce, or hogshead, of sentences, and, having filled it at the fountain, said to him, The philosophers, preachers, and doctors of your world feed you up with fine words and cant at the ears; now, here we really incorporate our precepts at the mouth. Therefore I'll not say ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... saw him was when he called one day with Mr. Hobhouse in Fleet Street. He afterwards looked in from time to time, while the sheets were passing through the press, fresh from the fencing rooms of Angelo and Jackson, and used to amuse himself by renewing his practice of "Carte et Tierce," with his walking-cane directed against the book-shelves, while Murray was reading passages from the poem, with occasional ejaculations of admiration; on which Byron would say, "You think that a good idea, do you, Murray?" ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles

... but his Majesty commanded my husband to wait on him in his own ship. We had by the States' order sent on board to the King's most eminent servants, great store of provisions: for our family we had sent on board the Speedwell a tierce of claret, a hogshead of Rhenish wine, six dozen of fowls, a dozen of gammons of bacon, a great basket of bread, and six sheep, two dozen of neats' tongues, and a great box of sweetmeats. Thus taking ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe

... thus turned aside a party who, in five minutes more, would have rifled her premises of all that was good to eat or wear. I made her a long social visit, and, before leaving Columbia, gave her a half-tierce of rice and about one hundred pounds of ham from our ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman



Words linked to "Tierce" :   leash, common fraction, ternion, trinity, trio, deuce-ace, terzetto, trey, ternary, 3, canonical hour, iii, terce, troika



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