Possible Definitions:
1. Third (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
2. Third (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
3. Third (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
4. Third (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
5. Third (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
6. Third (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.