DEFINITION
THIRD:
• (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the
ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
• (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which
anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
• (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal
parts into which anything is divided.
• (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
• (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
• (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which,
by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.