tierce
Pronunciation:
/ˈtɜːs//ˈtɪɚs/noun
Definitions
The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
The service appointed for this hour.
A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
noun
Definitions
A third.
A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.