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Medicommissure :: Medicommissure (n.) A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure.

Accent :: Accent (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure..

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

E :: E () E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.

Crown :: Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only..

Montem :: Montem (n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school..

Tri- :: Tri- () A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride..

Witch :: Witch (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera..

Parameter :: Parameter (n.) Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate..

Consonancy :: Consonancy (n.) Accord or agreement of sounds produced simultaneously, as a note with its third, fifth, and eighth..

Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

Suprapubian :: Supraprotest (n.) An acceptance of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee.

Hexachord :: Hexachord (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones..

Pale :: Pale (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it..

Third-borough :: Third-borough (n.) An under constable.

Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..

Leviticus :: Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law..

Hemiditone :: Hemiditone (n.) The lesser third.

Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl..

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