"Caroteel" is a word in ENGLISH

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

A surveying officer under the customs, excise, and internal revenue laws, appointed to examine all tuns, pipes, bogs-heads, barrels and …

A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, …

In Scotch law. This name ls given to a life-rent created ln marrtage contracts in favor of the wife, Instead …

In old Engllsh law. A cer-taln duty pald for every tierce of wine

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

In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.

See Tierce.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., …

The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

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

The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for …

A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of …

Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

L. Fr. Third. Tierce mein, thlrd hand. Britt c. 120

A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons

See Tierce, 4.