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(1):

(n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

(2):

(a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.

(3):

(n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tertian'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tertian.html. 1828.
 
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