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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Third \Third\, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. [1913 Webster] 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. [1913 Webster] {Major third} (Mus.), an interval of two tones. {Minor third} (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Third \Third\ (th[~e]rd), a. [OE. thirde, AS. [thorn]ridda, fr. [thorn]r[imac], [thorn]re['o], three; akin to D. derde third, G. dritte, Icel. [thorn]ri[eth]i, Goth. [thorn]ridja, L. tertius, Gr. tri`tos, Skr. t[.r]t[imac]ya. See {Three}, and cf. {Riding} a jurisdiction, {Tierce}.] 1. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. "The third night." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. [1913 Webster] {Third estate}. (a) In England, the commons, or the commonalty, who are represented in Parliament by the House of Commons. (b) In France, the tiers ['e]tat. See {Tiers ['e]tat}. {Third order} (R. C. Ch.), 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. {Third person} (Gram.), the person spoken of. See {Person}, n., 7. {Third sound}. (Mus.) See {Third}, n., 3. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: third adv 1: in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment" [syn: {third}, {thirdly}] adj 1: coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [syn: {third}, {3rd}, {tertiary}] n 1: one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement" [syn: {one-third}, {third}, {tierce}] 2: 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); "he is playing third" [syn: {third base}, {third}] 3: following the second position in an ordering or series; "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment" 4: the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it; "a simple harmony written in major thirds" 5: the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle; "you shouldn't try to start in third gear" [syn: {third gear}, {third}] 6: the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball; "he was cut down on a close play at third" [syn: {third base}, {third}]