partake 
Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, 
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 386. 
Universal nature slumbers, 
And my soul partakes the calm. 
Cowper, Watching unto God in the N ight Season (trans.), ii. 
2f. To admit to participation; invite or per- 
mit to share. 
My friend, hight Philemon, I did partake 
Of all my love, and all my privitie. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 20. 
3f. To distribute ; communicate. 
Your exultation 
Partake to every one. Shak. , W. T., v. 8. 132. 
partaker (par-ta'ker), , [< ME. parte-taker, 
fiarti taker; as part + taker, or partake + -M*.J 
1. One who takes or has a part or share in 
common with others; a sharer; a participator: 
usually followed by of or in. 
If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spirit- 
ual things. Rom. xv. 27. 
The law doth straightly them euioyne 
To be partakers of this holy meat 
And sacred drink. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. 3.), p. 18. 
Wish me partaker in thy happiness 
When thou dost meet good hap. 
Shak., T. G. of V., t 1. 14. 
2f. An associate ; an accomplice ; a partner. 
And what was the end now of that politic lady the 
queen other than this, that she lived to behold the wretch, 
ed ends of all her partakers? 
Raleigh, Hist. World, Pref., p. 12. 
The Church was fired, his enemies ascribing it to his 
partakers, and they againe to his Aduersaries. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 297. 
partan (par'tan), n. [Ir. and Gael, partan, a 
partan, crab.] An edible sea-crab. [Scotch.] 
He generously offered, if she would but wait a minute 
or so, to hunt out two partans (by which he meant crabs), 
so that she might witness a combat between them. 
W. Black, In Far Lochaber, iv. 
parted (piir'ted), p. a. If. Departed; deceased ; 
dead. 
Oft have I seen a timely-ported ghost. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. 181. 
2f. Endowed with parts or abilities. 
A man well parted, a sufficient scholar, and travelled. 
B. Janxon, Every Man out of his Humour, Pref. 
That man, how dearly ever parted, 
How much in having, or without or in, 
Cannot make boast to have that which he hath. 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 98. 
For as you 
Are every way well-parted, so I hold you 
In all designs mark'd to be fortunate. 
Webster and Rowley, Cure for a Cuckold, v. 1. 
3. In bot., cleft or divided nearly to the base, 
as leaves. Also partite. 4. In her., same as 
party^, 2 Double-parted, in her., parted in two ways. 
See cross double-parted, under crossi. Palmately part- 
ed. See palmately. Parted of two colors, in her., same 
as party perfesse (which see, under fegse\ the two parts of 
the field being of two tinctures. 
partelt, [ME., var. of parcel.] A part or 
portion. 
So this pleyinge hath thre partelis; the flrste is that we 
beholden in how many thingis God hath gyven us his grace. 
Reliq. Antiq., ii. 57. (Hattiwell.) 
partenert, n. An obsolete form of partner. 
parter (par'ter) ; n. [< part, v., + -er 1 .] One 
who or that which parts or separates. 
The parter of the fray was night, which, with her black 
arms, pulled their malicious sights one from the other. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
parterre (par-tar' ), n. [= It. partere, parterre, 
< P. parterre, a flower-bed, parterre, < par, by, 
on (s L. per, through), + terre, earth, < L. terra: 
see terrace.] 1. In hort., a system of beds of 
different shapes and sizes in which flowers are 
cultivated, arranged in some design or plan, 
with intervening spaces of gravel or turf. 
The garden nearest the pavilion is taparterre, having in 
y middst noble brasse statues. 
Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 27, 1644. 
When it [the water] has paid its tribute to the royal pile 
[Alhambra], and visited its gardens and parterres, it flows 
down the long avenue leading to the city. 
Irving, Alhambra, p. 64. 
2. The part of the floor of a theater beneath 
the galleries: in some modern English theaters 
called the pit a sense to be distinguished from 
the original meaning of pit. 
partes, Plural of pars. 
Parthenium(par-the'ni-um),M. [NL.(Linn8eus, 
1737), < L. parthenium, < Gr. napdimov, a name 
of several different plants, < TtapBevmf, maidenly, 
pure, < wapBevoc, a maiden, virgin.] A genus of 
composite plants, of the tribe Helianthoidese 
and subtribe Melampodieee, known by the small 
broad rays, and the thickish compressed or tri- 
angular acheues, often firmly united to the en- 
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veloping bract, and with narrow margins sepa- 
rating half-way at maturity. There are about 6 
species, natives of North America and the West Indies. 
They are usually rough hairy herbs, with alternate leaves, 
undivided, toothed, or pinnately dissected, and small heads 
of whitish or yellowish flowers in a terminal panicle. P. 
Uysterophorus, a weed throughout wanner America, and 
used medicinally, is known in Jamaica as u-ila wormwood, 
whitehead, brou'ii-bush, bastard feverfew, and West Indian 
mugwort. P. integrifolimn, of the southern United States, 
is used as a febrifuge. 
parthenochlorosis (par"the-no-klo-r6'sis), n. 
[NL., < Gr. mip8ivo<;, a virgin, + NL. chlorosis.'] 
Chlorosis in girls. 
parthenogenesis (par'the-no-jen'e-sis), . 
[NL., < Gr. napOevos, a virgin, + yhieatf, produc- 
tion: see genesis.'] 1. Reproduction by a vir- 
gin; in eool., one of the phenomena attending 
alternate generation among animals which have 
sex, a kind of agamogenesis in which an imper- 
fect female individual, hatched from an egg 
laid by a perfect female after ordinary sexu- 
al intercourse, continues to reproduce its kind 
for one or more generations without renewed 
impregnation. Parthenogenesis characterizes 
the reproduction of many insects, as aphids or 
plantJice. 
Agamogenesis is of frequent occurrence among insects, 
and occurs under two extreme forms ; in the one the pa- 
rent is a perfect female, while the germs have all the mor- 
phological characters of eggs, and to this the term parthe- 
nogenesis ought to be restricted. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert, p. 383. 
One sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal 
parthenogenesis. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 223. 
2. In bot. : (a) The production of a perfect em- 
bryo without the intervention of pollen. Ac- 
cording to Strasburger, the embryos thus formed are ad- 
ventitious outgrowths from the cellular tissue of the 
nucellus and outside of the embryo-sac. (ft) In certain 
cryptogams, a peculiar form of apogamy in 
which organs which are morphologically sexual 
organs make their appearance, but, instead of 
producing sexual reproductive cells, they pro- 
duce cells which are capable every one by itself 
of giving rise to a new individual. 
parthenogenetic (par"the-no-je-net'ik), a. [< 
parthenogenesis, after genetic.] 1. Pertaining 
to parthenogenesis, or having its characters; 
exhibiting the phenomena of parthenogenesis. 
2. Born of a virgin. 
The enigmatic nature of this inextricable compound 
parthenogenetic deity. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 279. 
parthenogenetically (par * the - no - je - net ' i - 
kal-i), adv. By parthenogenesis. 
parthenogenic (par"the-no-jen'ik), a. [< par- 
thenogen-y + -ic.] In bot., exhibiting or char- 
acterized by parthenogenesis. 
parthenogenous(par-the-noj'e-nus), a. [<par- 
thenogen-y + -OtM.J Producing young without 
sexual impregnation, as many aphids. 
parthenogeny (par-the-uoj'e-ni), n. [< Gr. 
vapKvof, a virgin, + -yeveia, < -70%, producing : 
see -geny.] Same as parthenogenesis. 
parthenogonidium (par-the-no-go-nid'i-um), 
n.; pi. partlienogonidia (-a). [NL., < Gr. napffe- 
vof, a virgin, + NL. gonidiiim.] A gonidium 
produced without fecundation. Wolle. 
parthenology (par-the-nol'o-ji), TO. [= F. par- 
thenologie, < Gr. napftevof, a virgin, + -Aoyia, < 
Uyetv, speak: see-ology.] A description or con- 
sideration of the state of virginity in health or 
disease. 
Parthenon (par'the-non), n. [= P. Parthenon 
= It. Partenone, < L. Parthenon, < Gr. Jlapfe- 
vuv, the temple of Athene Parthenos (the Vir- 
Southwest Angle of the Parthenon, from the Museum Hill. 
partial 
gin) at Athens, also, in gen. sense, the young 
women's apartments in a house, < rafOtvOf, a 
virgin, maid, young woman.] The Doric tem- 
ple of Athene, under the appellation of Parthe- 
nos, the Virgin, on the Acropolis of Athens ; the 
ceremonial or official temple of the Athenians 
in their quality as rulers of the empire of their 
colonies and allies. It is built of Pentelic marble, and 
is a peripteral, or, as it may be called, a pseudo dipteral 
octastyle, with seventeen columns on the sides, the pronaos 
and the opisthodomos within the peripteros having each 
a portico of six Doric columns. Its length is 228 feet, its 
breadth 101, and the height to the apex of the pediments 
was 65 feet. It was badly shattered in 1087 by the ex- 
plosion of a magazine of gunpowder which the Turks had 
placed in it during the siege of Athens by the Venetians. 
The Parthenon, which was completed about 438 B. C., was 
the most perfect work of art that has been produced, its 
construction and its sculptured decoration in the round, 
in both low and high relief, and in color embodying the 
best genius and skill of Athens at the pinnacle of her glory. 
See Elgin marbles (under marble), and compare cuts under 
cella, Doric, Greek, and Hellenic. 
Parthenope (par-then'o-pe), . [NL., < L. Par- 
thenope, a poetical name of Naples. < Parthe- 
nope, < Gr. napOevoirri, one of the Sirens, said 
to have been cast up drowned on the shore of 
Naples, < napSevof, a maiden, + ui/> (OTT-), face.] 
1. The llth planetoid, discovered by De Gas- 
paris, at Naples, in 1850. 2. In zool., a generic 
name variously used, (a) The typical genus of Par- 
thenopidee, founded by Fabricius in 1798. (6) A genus of 
mollusks. Scacchi, 1833. (c) A genus of worms. Schmidt, 
1837. 
Parthenopean (par"the-no-pe'an), a. [< Par- 
thenope + -an.] Of or pertaining to Parthe- 
nope, an ancient and poetical name of Naples 
in Italy : as, the Parthenopean republic. 
parthenopian (par-the-no'pi-an), a. and n. [< 
Parthenope + -ian.] I. a. Pertaining to the ge- 
nus Parthenope or the family Parthenopidx, or 
having their characters. 
II. n. A member of the family Parthcnopidse. 
Parthenopidae(par-the-nop'i-de), ii.pl. [NL., - 
< Parthenope + -idse.] A family of brachyurous 
decapod crustaceans, typified by the genus Par- 
thenope. They have a more or less triangular carapace, 
small subcircular orbits, and slender antennae whose basal 
Joints are very small. The species chiefly inhabit warm 
seas. They are sometimes known as long-armed crabs. 
parthenopine (piir-then'o-pin), a. and . [< 
Parthenope + -ine^.] Same as parthenopian. 
parthenosperm (par'the-no-sperm), n. [< Gr. 
nap&evof, a virgin, + oirepfia, seed.] Same as 
parthenospore. 
parthenospore (par'the-no-spor), n. [< Gr. 
TrapOivof, a virgin, + oTropti, rrcl : see spore.] 
In bot., a reproductive cell or spore closely re- 
sembling a zygospore, produced without conju- 
gation in certain algae of the class Conjugate?. 
Parthian (par'thi-an), a. and n. [< L. Parthia, 
< Gr. HapOvaia, Parthia. < UapBot, also THap6valoi, 
Jldpdtoi, L. Parthi, the Parthians.] I. a. Of or 
pertaining to Parthia, an ancient region in Per- 
sia, which from the third century B. c. to the 
third century A. D. formed the nucleus of an 
important Asiatic kingdom Parthian arrow or 
shot, a shaft or shot aimed at an adversary while flying or 
pretending to fly from him ; a parting shot : in allusion to 
the manner of fighting of the ancient Parthians. 
II. . A native or an inhabitant of Parthia. 
partial (par'shal), a. and n. [< ME. parcial, < 
OF . partial, partial, F. partial = Sp. Pg. parcial 
= It. parziale,< ML. partialis, divisible, solitary, 
partial, < L. pars (part-), part : see part.] I. a. 
1. Affecting a part only; not general or uni- 
versal; not total. 
The weakening of a thing is only a partial destruction 
of it. South. 
So narrow then [1589] was the sphere of publication, and 
so partial was all literary communication. 
/. D'Israeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 55. 
To know something, and not all partial knowledge- 
must of course perplex ; doctrines imperfectly revealed 
must be mysterious. 
J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, L 211. 
2. In bot., subordinate ; secondary: as, a par- 
tial umbel, peduncle, or involucre. 3. Inclined 
to favor one party in a cause or one side of a 
question more than the other ; not indifferent ; 
exhibiting favoritism ; in a restricted sense, 
unjust, or unfair through favoritism. 
She 's vicious, and, your partial selves confess, 
Aspires the height of all impiety. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, iv. 4. 
The chief incens'd "Too partial god of day ! 
To check my conquests in the middle way : 
How few in Ilion else had refuge found? ' 
Pope, Iliad, xxii. 23. 
4. Greatly or unduly inclined to favor a person 
or thing; "having a liking for, or a prejudice in 
favor of, an object: when used in the predi- 
cate, with to before the object. 
