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Webster 1913 Edition
Third
Third
(thẽrd)
, Adj.
1.
Next after the second; coming after two others; – the ordinal of three;
“The third night.” as, the
. third
hour in the dayChaucer.
2.
Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided;
as, the
. third
part of a dayThird estate
. (a)
In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons.
(b)
In France, the tiers état.
See Tiers état
. Third order
(R. C. Ch.)
, an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See , 1.
– Tertiary
, Noun.
Third person
(Gram.)
, the person spoken of. See , 7.
– Person
, Noun.
Third sound
. (Mus.)
See , 3.
Third
, Noun.
Third
,Noun.
1.
The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
2.
The sixtieth part of a second of time.
3.
(Mus.)
The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
4.
pl.
(Law)
The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
Major third
(Mus.)
, an interval of two tones.
– Minor third
(Mus.)
, an interval of a tone and a half.
Webster 1828 Edition
Third
THIRD
,Adj.
Third estate, in the British nation, is the commons; or in the legislature, the house of commons.
Third order, among the Catholics,is a sort of religious order that observes the same rule and the same manner of life in proportion as some other two orders previously instituted; as the third order of Franciscans, instituted by St. Francis in 1221.
Third point or tierce point, in architecture,the point of section in the vertex of an equilateral triangle.
Third rate, in navies. A third rate ship carries from 64 to 80 guns.
Third sound, in music. See the noun Third.
THIRD
,Noun.
1.
The sixtieth part of a second of time.2.
In music, an interval containing three diatonic sounds; the major composed to two tones, called by the Greeks ditone, and the minor called hemiditone, consisting of a tone and a half.