Associations to the word «Tierce»

TIERCE, noun. 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.

TIERCE, noun. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

TIERCE, noun. (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.

TIERCE, noun. (card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.

TIERCE, noun. (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

TIERCE, noun. (heraldiccharge) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.

TIERCE, noun. (religion) (Roman Catholic) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

TIERCE, noun. (obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

TIERCÉ, adjective. (heraldry) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon.

TIERCE DE PICARDIE, noun. (music) a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism.

TIERCE, noun. The third canonical hour; about 9 a.m..

TIERCE, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

TIERCE, noun. One of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement".