tierces

noun

1. 1.The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
2. 2.The service appointed for this hour.
3. 3.A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
4. 4.A third.
5. 5.A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.