3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Part \Part\ (p[aum]rt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parting}.] [F. partir, L. partire, partiri, p. p. partitus, fr. pars, gen. partis, a part. See {Part}, n.] [1913 Webster] 1. To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. "Thou shalt part it in pieces." --Lev. ii. 6. [1913 Webster] There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. [1913 Webster] To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee. --Pope. [1913 Webster] They parted my raiment among them. --John xix. 24. [1913 Webster] 3. To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. [1913 Webster] The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. --Ruth i. 17. [1913 Webster] While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. --Luke xxiv. 51. [1913 Webster] The narrow seas that part The French and English. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. [1913 Webster] The stumbling night did part our weary powers. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. [1913 Webster] The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and strains the vital juices. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 6. To leave; to quit. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Since presently your souls must part your bodies. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. To separate (a collection of objects) into smaller collections; as, to part one's hair in the middle. [PJC] {To part a cable} (Naut.), to break it. {To part company}, to separate, as travelers or companions. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: parted \part"ed\ (p[aum]rt"[e^]d), a. 1. Separated; divided. [1913 Webster] 2. Endowed with parts or abilities. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. --Gray. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: parted adj : having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes
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