Bible Dictionaries
Tierce

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

(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.

(3):

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

(4):

(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.

(5):

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

(6):

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

(7):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tierce'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tierce.html. 1828.