英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Tie
(v. t.)
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
Tie
(v. i.)
To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Tie-rod
(n.)
A rod used as a tie. See Tie.
Tiebar
(n.)
A flat bar used as a tie.
Tiebeam
(n.)
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.
Tied
(imp. & p. p.)
of Tie
Tier
(n.)
One who, or that which, ties.
Tier
(n.)
A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied
with tape or cord; a pinafore.
Tier
(v. t.)
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.
Tierce
(n.)
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.
Tierce
(n.)
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or
a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for
shipment.
Tierce
(n.)
The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
Tierce
(n.)
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce
of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
Tierce
(n.)
A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and
nails are turned downward.
Tierce
(n.)
The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the
canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.
Tierce
(a.)
Divided into three equal parts of three different
tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.
Tierce-major
(n.)
See Tierce, 4.
Tiercel
(n.)
Alt. of Tiercelet
Tiercelet
(n.)
The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine;
also, the male of the goshawk.
Tiercet
(n.)
A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.