English English Dictionary

Free from terror.

A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, "Sanctus" -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion.

Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.

Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.

Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.

A trisulphide.

A trisulphide.

Same as Tertiary.

Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

of Tertiary

Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.

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.

Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.

Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.

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.

The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.