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Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Caroteel :: Caroteel (n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the little hours, viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour..

Tiercelet :: Tiercelet (n.) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk..

Tiercel :: Tiercel (n.) Alt. of Tiercele.

Point :: Point (n.) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point..

Leash :: Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) 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..

Tercel :: Tercel (n.) See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel..

Tiercet :: Tiercet (n.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together..

Tierce-major :: Tierce-major (n.) See Tierce, 4..

Terce :: Terce (n.) See Tierce.

Quart :: Quart (n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major..

Tierce :: Tierce (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

Tercelet :: Tercelet (n.) A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment..

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