Definition of third

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Third (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.

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Delegation :: Delegation (n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him..
Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..
Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.
Spay :: Spay (v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
Paulianist :: Paulianist (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ..
Hemuse :: Hemuse (n.) The roebuck in its third year.
Septuagesima :: Septuagesima (n.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Degree :: Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree..
Junior :: "Junior (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course..
Scorpio :: Scorpio (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs..
Li :: Li (n.) A Chinese measure of distance, being a little more than one third of a mile..
Geth :: Geth () the original third pers. sing. pres. of Go.
Tenace :: Tenace (n.) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand..
Tertian :: Tertian (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever..
Triduan :: Triduan (a.) Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day..
Trug :: Trug (n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Mite :: Mite (n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ..
Mullet :: Mullet (n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son..
Unipersonal :: Unipersonal (a.) Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal..
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