Vocabulary : Ter-tenant to Terzetto
Ter-tenant : See Terre-tenant.Tertial : Same as Tertiary.
Tertian : 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.
Tertiaries : of Tertiary
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.
