English English Dictionary

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

To make a tie; to make an equal score.

A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

A flat bar used as a tie.

A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.

of Tie

One who, or that which, ties.

A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.

A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.

A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

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

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

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

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

See Tierce, 4.

Alt. of Tiercelet

The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.

A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.