terce (English, noun)
expansion: terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)
Senses:
glosses: The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The service appointed for this hour.
tags: countable
uncountable
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: terces
tags: plural
form: tierce
tags: alternative