Search the Dictionary

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.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. [I] kept my chamber a leash of days. B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. Tennyson.

Cf. Great go, under Great. Thackeray. -- Little hours (R. C. Ch.), the offices of prime, tierce, sext, and nones. Vespers and compline are sometimes included. -- Little ones, young children. The men, and the women, and the little ones. Deut. ii. 34.

A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.

In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce,

See Tierce.

See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. Chaucer.

A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet. Chaucer.