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noun
- a unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East.
- a marked ability or skill.
- He has the talent of touching his nose with his tongue.
- the potential or factual ability to perform a skill better than most people.
- She has a talent to sing.
- Also used jocularly, as: He has a talent for getting into trouble.
- (slang) attractive man or woman.
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noun
- (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
- (rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain (with reference to Matthew 13:25: "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way." The King James Version (Authorized))
- 1985, I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin. " John Fowles, A Maggot
verb (tar, ing)
- To allow for the tare; to set a counter or meter to a valid zero (usually weight) value, discounting the weight of the empty container.
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noun (uncountable and countable; plural thicknesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
- When it comes to penis size, many women say they prefer thickness over length.
- (uncountable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
- The thickness of the Earth's crust is varies from two to 70 kilometres.
- (countable) A layer.
- We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
- (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
- Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
- (context, uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
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noun
- 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.
- Quotations
- 1882, Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.
- A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- (music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
- (fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (heraldiccharge) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
- (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.
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noun
- a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
- 1997: the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
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proper noun
- An ancient city in what is now Turkey.
- A surname derived from Troyes in France.
- (given name, male), originally transferred use of the surname, but today associated with the classical city.
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noun
- a system of units of weight / mass, mostly used for precious metals and gemstones, in which the pound contains 12 ounces which each contain 480 grains
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noun
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
- (context, brewing) A fermenting vat.
- An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
- Quotations
- 1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.
- A weight of 2,240 pounds.
- An indefinite large quantity.
- A drunkard; so called humorously, or in contempt.
- (zoology) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; called also tun-shell.
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