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‖n.; pl. Compotiers /plu>. [ F. ] A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{ 2 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

‖n.; pl. Condottieri [ It., captain. ] A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter. ] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [ Written also cottar and cotter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Court. ] 1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. [ 1913 Webster ]

You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, empties. [ 1913 Webster ]

compar. of Empty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Entirety. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Filibuster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. frontière, LL. frontaria. See Front. ] 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) An outwork. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or relating to a frontier. “Frontier experience.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Placed on the frontiers. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Frontiersmen A man living on the frontier.

‖n. [ F. ] 1. Calling; vocation; business; trade.

Not only is it the business of no one to preach the truth but it is the métier of many to conceal it. A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. the field or activity at which one excels; one's forte. [ PJC ]

[ After Jean C. A. Peltier, French physicist, the discoverer. ] (Elec.) The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who pities. Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. porte gate, door. See Port a gate. ] A curtain hanging across a doorway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who putties; a glazier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See 5th Rent. ] One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. routier, fr. route a road. See Route. ] A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A kind of freezer for ices. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Saltire. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ OF. testiere. See Tester a headpiece. ] A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, ties. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Tire a headdress. ] A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. [ Written also tire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps fr. OF. tire, F. tire; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. ziarī ornament, G. zier, AS. tīr glory, tiér row, rank. But cf. also F. tirer to draw, pull; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Attire, v. t., Tire a headdress, but also Tirade. ] A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tiers of a cable, the ranges of fakes, or windings, of a cable, laid one within another when coiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tierce a third, from tiers, tierce, third, fr. L. tertius the third; akin to tres three. See Third, Three, and cf. Terce, Tercet, Tertiary. ] 1. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Fencing) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (R. C. Ch.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m, ; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ F. ] (Her.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. tercel, tercelet, F. tiercelet, a dim. of (assumed) tiercel, or LL. tertiolus, dim. fr. L. tertius the third; -- so called, according to some, because every third bird in the nest is a male, or, according to others, because the male is the third part less than female. Cf. Tercel. ] (Falconry) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. tierce majeure. ] (Card Playing) See Tierce, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tercet. See Tercet. ] (Pros.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The refusal of the clergy and nobility to give the tiers état a representation in the States-general proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the term has been purely historical. [ 1913 Webster ]