An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

TER, s. Tar.
Barbour.

Teut. terre, Su. G. tiaera, id.

TERCE, s. A liferent competent by law to widows who have not accepted of a special provision, of the third of the heritable subjects in which their husbands died infeft.
Erskine.

Lat. tertia, Fr. tiers.

Tercer, s. A widow who enjoys a terce, S.
Balfour.

TERE, s. Perhaps, expense.

Teut. teer, sumptus.

Douglas.

TERE, adj. Tender, delicate.
Pal. Hon.

Teut. tere, tener, delicatus.