Definition of third

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Third (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

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Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Walloons :: Walloons (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively..
Accent :: Accent (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure..
Covin :: Covin (n.) A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.
Polka :: Polka (n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented..
Abomasus :: Abomasus (n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia..
Trustee :: Trustee (v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor..
Matador :: Matador (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one..
Himself :: Himself (pron.) An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself..
Cotton :: Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half..
Pluries :: Pluries (n.) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded..
Scutellum :: Scutellum (n.) The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax..
Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.
Plotinist :: Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death..
Fourth :: Fourth (a.) Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
Trifallow :: Trifallow (v. t.) To plow the third time before sowing, as land..
Manyplies :: Manyplies (n.) The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant..
Intervention :: Intervention (n.) The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties..
Terma :: Terma (n.) The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain..
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