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- English Word Tertian Definition A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
- English Word Tertiaries Definition of Tertiary
- English Word Tertiary Definition Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
- English Word Tertiary Definition Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
- English Word Tertiary Definition Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
- English Word Tertiary Definition Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
- English Word Tertiary Definition A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
- English Word Tertiary Definition The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
- English Word Tertiary Definition One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
- English Word Tertiate Definition To do or perform for the third time.
- English Word Tertiate Definition To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
- English Word Terutero Definition The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.
- English Word Terza rima Definition A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.
- English Word Terzetto Definition A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.
- English Word Tesselar Definition Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
- English Word Tessellata Definition A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
- English Word Tessellate Definition To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
- English Word Tessellate Definition Tessellated.
- English Word Tessellated Definition of Tessellate
- English Word Tessellated Definition Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.
- English Word Tessellated Definition Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
- English Word Tessellating Definition of Tessellate
- English Word Tessellation Definition The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
- English Word Tessera Definition A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
- English Word Tesserae Definition of Tessera
- English Word Tesseraic Definition Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.
- English Word Tesseral Definition Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae.
- English Word Tesseral Definition Isometric.
- English Word Tessular Definition Tesseral.
- English Word Test Definition A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.