noun. The ordinal number matching the number three in a series.

noun. One of three equal parts.

noun. undefined

noun. An interval of three degrees in a diatonic scale.

noun. A tone separated by three degrees from a given tone, especially the third tone of a scale.

noun. The transmission gear or gear ratio used to produce forward speeds next higher to those of second in a motor vehicle.

noun. Third base.

noun. Merchandise whose quality is below the standard set for seconds.

noun. In golf, a handicap allowance equivalent to one stroke at every third hole; an allowance of six strokes in eighteen holes.

To work at or treat a third time: as, to third turnips (that is, to hoe them a third time).

noun. Thread.

Next after the second: an ordinal numeral.

Being one of three equal subdivisions: as, the third part of anything.

noun. One of three equal parts into which a unit or total may be divided.

noun. plural In English and American law, the third part of the husband's personal property, which goes to the widow absolutely in the case of his dying intestate leaving a child or descendant, given (with various qualifications) by the common law and by modern statutes.

noun. The sixtieth of a second of time or arc.

noun. In music: A tone on the third degree above or below a given tone; the next tone but one in a diatonic series.

noun. The interval between any tone and a tone on the third degree above or below it.

noun. The harmonic combination of two tones at the interval thus defined.

noun. In a scale, the third tone from the bottom; the mediant: solmizated mi.

noun. In base-ball, same as third base. See baseball, 1.

adjective. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three.

adjective. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

adjective. In France, the tiers état.

adjective. an order attached to a monastic order, and comprising men and women devoted to a rule of pious living, called the third rule, by a simple vow if they remain seculars, and by more solemn vows if they become regulars. See Tertiary, n., 1.

adjective. the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7.

adjective. See Third, n., 3.

noun. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

noun. The sixtieth part of a second of time.

noun. The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

noun. The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

noun. an interval of two tones.

noun. an interval of a tone and a half.

adjective. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.

noun. The person or thing in the third position.

noun. One of three equal parts of a whole.

noun. The third gear of an engine.

noun. An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.

noun. third base

noun. One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.

verb. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.

verb. To divide into three equal parts.

noun. following the second position in an ordering or series

noun. the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball

noun. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

adjective. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position

noun. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it

noun. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

noun. the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle

adverb. in the third place