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The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

a creditor, the new creditor succeeding to the rights of the former; the mode by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor. Bouvier. Burrill. Abbott.

Containing a third, or one part to three. Bp. Wilkins.

An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. Burrill.

shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]

The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

ff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. Trench.

To do or perform for the third time. [Obs. & R.] Johnson.

A third somewhat; something mediating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

The cavity or ventricle of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle.

A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. Were it as thick as is a branched oak. Chaucer. My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings xii. 10.

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

Third. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also thrifallow.] Tusser.

ut was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.