From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tierc'e \Tier*c['e]"\, adjective [F.] (Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tierce \Tierce\, noun [F. tierce a third, from tiers, tierce, third, fr. L. tertius the third; akin to tres three. See {Third}, {Three}, and cf. {Terce}, {Tercet}, {Tertiary}.]
1. 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.
2. 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. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See {Mediant}.
4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
5. (Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.
6. (R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. [syn: {terce}]
2: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: {three}, {3}, {III}, {trio}, {threesome}, {leash}, {troika}, {triad}, {trine}, {trinity}, {ternary}, {ternion}, {triplet}, {tercet}, {terzetto}, {trey}, {deuce-ace}]
3: one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement" [syn: {one-third}, {third}]
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