terce

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

terce
    n 1: the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m. [syn: {terce},
         {tierce}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Terce \Terce\, n.
   See {Tierce}.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

TERCE, law of Scotland. A life-rent competent by law to widows who have not 
accepted of special provisions in the third part of the heritable subjects 
in which the husband died infeft. 
     2. The terce takes place only where the marriage has subsisted for a 
year and day, or where a child has been born alive of it. No terce is due 
out of lands in which the husband was not infeft, unless in case of a 
fraudulent omission. Cr. 423, Sec. 28; St. 2, 6, 16. The terce is not 
limited to lands, but extends to teinds, and to servitudes and other burdens 
affecting lands. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 9, s. 26, 27; Burge on the 
Confl. of Laws, 429 to 435.