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.