| Aid-major |
The adjutant of a regiment. |
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| Tierce |
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. |
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| Tierce |
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. |
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| Tierce |
The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. |
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| Tierce |
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. |
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| Tierce |
A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. |
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| Tierce |
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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| Tierce |
Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon. |
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| Drum major |
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| Drum major |
The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers. |
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| Drum major |
The marching leader of a military band. |
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| Drum major |
A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4. |
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| Etat Major |
The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers. |
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| Major |
Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory. |
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| Major |
Of greater dignity; more important. |
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| Major |
Of full legal age. |
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| Major |
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. |
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| Major |
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer. |
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| Major |
A person of full age. |
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| Major |
That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]. |
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