Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TER'TIAN
TER'TIAN, n.
- A disease or fever whose paroxysms return every other day; an intermittent whose paroxysms occur after intervals of a little less than forty-eight hours. Cyc. Coxe.
- A measure of 81 gallons, the third part of a tun. [Obs.]
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