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rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater. Tiers of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.

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

See Tierce, 4.

The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.

A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.

A holy-water stoup. Shipley.

A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

itain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

dance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who, or that which, empties.

See Entirety. [Obs.]

A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. [Obs.]

another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

A man living on the frontier.

Calling; vocation; business; trade.

The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.