Chapter Parroter to Parted of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

4. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

The stumbling night did part our weary powers.

Shak.

5. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

The liver minds his own affair, . . .
And parts and strains the vital juices.

Prior.

6. To leave; to quit. [Obs.]

Since presently your souls must part your bodies.

Shak.

To part a cable (Naut.), to break it. — To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.

Part
(Part), v. i.

1. To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

2. To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; — often with from.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

Shak.

He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before.

Macaulay.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.

G. Eliot.

3. To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; — followed by with or from.

Celia, for thy sake, I part
With all that grew so near my heart.

Waller.

Powerful hands . . . will not part
Easily from possession won with arms.

Milton.

It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

A. Trollope.

4. To have a part or share; to partake. [Obs.] "They shall part alike." 1 Sam. xxx. 24.

Part
(Part), adv. Partly; in a measure. [R.] Shak.

Partable
(Part"a*ble) a. See Partible. Camden.

Partage
(Part"age) n. [F. See Part, v. & n.]

1. Division; the act of dividing or sharing. [Obs.] Fuller.

2. Part; portion; share. [Obs.] Ford.

Partake
(Par*take") v. i. [imp. Partook ; p. p. Partaken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Partaking.] [Part + take.]

1. To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke.

When I against myself with thee partake.

Shak.

2. To have something of the properties, character, or office; — usually followed by of.

The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.

Bacon.