[{"word":"tierce","phonetic":"/ˈtɜːs/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈtɜːs/","audio":""},{"text":"/ˈtɪɚs/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The service appointed for this hour.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["half undern","undermeal","undern","underntide","undertide","undern-song"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A third.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The third tone of the scale. See mediant.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terce","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tierce"]}]