parting-line 
of the sand-parting extends, however, on all sides from It 
to the edges of the flask-part. E. II. Knight. 
parting-rail (piir'ting-ral), w. Iii carp,, a rail in- 
termediate between the top and the bottom rail 
of a door or partition ; a lock-rail. E. H. Kit ii/h t. 
parting-sand (par'ting-sand), . In molding, 
dry non-adhesive sand or brick-dust sprinkled 
upon the meeting faces of the two members of 
a mold to insure their ready separation. 
parting-Shard (piir'ting-shard), . In ceram., 
a thin piece of baked clay used in the pottery- 
kiln to prevent different pieces of the unbaked 
ware from sticking together. 
parting-Strip (par 'ting -strip), n. A narrow 
strip used to keep two parts separated, as the 
long strip between the upper and the lower sash 
in a window-frame, or that between a window- 
sash and a window-blind in a carriage or rail- 
way-car. 
parting-tool (par'ting-tb'l), . A tool used in 
many different kinds of work for dividing parts, 
trimming, marking outlines, etc. () A turning- 
tool with narrow cutting edge for dividing a piece in the 
lathe, or for separating a turned piece from the stub-end 
or unworked part of the block out of which it has been 
formed, (b) An angular gouge for incising outlines, carv- 
ing stems, etc. (e) A joiners' bent-edged chisel, with its 
cutting edge variously shaped, (d) A marble-workers' 
rasp, flat, with curved ends, used for smoothing recesses 
difficult to reach. Inside parting-tool, a tool used to 
undercut or hollow out from a solid piece rings and other 
openings of curved outline. 
partisan, * and . See partizanl, partisan 2 . 
partita (par-te'ta), n. [It., apart: see part, n.] 
In music, a suite,' or a set of variations. 
partite (par'tit), a. [= F. partite, partit = Sp. 
Pg. partido = It. partita, < L. partittis, divided, 
pp. ofpartiri, divide: see part, r.] 1. Parted 
or divided into parts: usually in composition 
with qualifying or specifying prefix, as bipar- 
tite, tripartite, quadripartite. See the com- 
pounds. 2. In bot., same as parted. 3. In 
entom., divided by a slit from the apex to the 
base, as the wings of certain small moths. 
partition (piir-tish'on), n. [< F. partition = Sp. 
partition, partija=:'g.partie i tto = It.partizione, 
partigione, < L. partitio(n-), a division, < par- 
tiri, pp. partitus, divide : see part, v. Cf . par- 
cener.] 1. The act of parting or dividing; the 
act of separating into portions and distributing : 
as, the partition of a kingdom among several 
other states. 
O learned (Nature-taught) Arithmetician ! 
Clock-less, so just to measure Time's partition. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
The partition of Naples, the most scandalous transaction 
of the period, he shared equally with Louis. 
Prescotl, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 24. 
S3. The state of being divided; division; sepa- 
ration; distinction. 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 
But yet an union in partition. 
Skak., M. N. D., iii. 2. 210. 
3f. Separate part ; apartment; compartment. 
An edifice too large for him [man] to fill, 
Lodged in a small partition. 
Miltott, P. L., viii. 105. 
4. That by which different parts are separated. 
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit, i. 164. 
(a) In arch., a dividing wall; a wall or barrier which 
serves to separate one apartment from another in a build- 
ing. 
Condemning the rest of Gods inheritance to an injurious 
and alienat condition of Laity, they separated from them 
by local partitions in Churches. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii. 3. 
(6) In bot. t the division of a parted leaf ; also, the wall of 
a cell in an ovary or fruit; a dissepiment, (e) In zoiil., 
specifically, a party-wall, septum, or dissepiment. 
5. In law, a division of property among co-own- 
ers by their agreement or by judicial proceeding. 
At common law it is a division of lands and tenements 
between coparceners, joint tenants, or tenants in common, 
by agreement, so as to terminate their cotenancy and vest 
in each a sole estate in a portion of the land, or an allot- 
ment, as it was called ; and this was not deemed a convey- 
ance, hut a mere severance of interests. Partition has also 
long been made by courts of equity, for they have power 
to award compensation for inequality, or to decree a sale 
and division of proceeds when an actual allotment is im- 
practicable or disadvantageous. The same power has of 
late been sometimes extended to personal property, but 
not usually under the name of partition, nor is the name 
used for the ordinary distribution or division of an estate 
by executors, etc. 
6. In music. Same as score. 7. In logic, and 
rhetoric, the separation of an integrate whole 
into its integrant parts ; the separation of any 
whole into its parts, except that the separation 
of a genus into its species, or of a species into 
genus and difference, is not so called. 
Division divideth universal things into their particulars, 
and partition divideth particulars into their parts, and 
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most commonly followeth division, ... as, for example, 
when division hath divided a sensible body into a man and 
beast, then followeth partition and divideth man into soul 
and body, and the body into his integral! parts, as head, 
brest, belly, legges, and such like. 
Blundeville, Arte of Logicke, ii. 3. 
8. In math., a mode of separating a positive 
whole number into a sum of positive whole 
numbers. Thus, the partitions of 4 are 1 + 1 
+ 1 + 1, 1 + 1 + 2, 2 + 2, and 1 + 3.- ideal, 
metaphysical, etc., partition. See the adjectives. 
Owelty of partition f. See omlty. Partition line, in 
her., one of the lines by which a shield is divided, espe- 
cially a line dividing an ordinary from the field or another 
ordinary. See Kn2, 12. Partition of numbers, the 
separation of particular whole numbers into sums of whole 
numbers ; also, the name of the mathematical theory of 
problems relating to the numbers of wavs in which num- 
bers can be separated into whole numbers under given 
conditions. Partition wall, a dividing wall; a parti- 
tion. 
A great partition u'all to keep others out 
Decay of Christian Piety. 
Physical partition. See physical. 
partition (par-tish'on), v. t. [(partition, n.] 1. 
To divide by walls "or partitions. 
I understand both these sides ... to be uniform with- 
out, though severally partitionedwltMn. Bacon, Building. 
2. To divide into shares : as, to partition an 
estate. 
Thus the Roman world was partitioned among six mas- 
ters. Mahan, Church Hist., iii. 8. 
partitional (par-tish'on-al), a. [(partition + 
-al.~\ Formed by partitions. 
The pods are flattish, two or three inches long, and con- 
tain from three to five seeds in partitional cells. 
Grainger, Sugar Cane, iv., note. 
partitioned (par-tish'pnd), a. [( partition + 
-erf 2 .] In bot", provided with a partition or 
wall ; separated by partitions. 
partitionmentt (par-tish'pn-ment), n. [(par- 
tition + -ment.] The act of dividing ; partition. 
As he is to record the story of a definite partitionment 
from Virginia of land that once belonged to it, he begins 
with a sparkling sketch of the history of Virginia up to 
that time. Tyler, Amer. Lit., II. 272. 
partitive (par'ti-tiv), a. and n. [( F. partitif= 
Sp. Pg. It. partiUvo, < L. as if "partitivus, ( par- 
titus, pp. of partiri, divide: see partite, part, 
v.] I. a. In gram., denoting a part; defining 
a part by expression of the whole to which it 
belongs ; indicating a part as related to a whole : 
as, the head of a man; a half of it; or, in French, 
diipain, ' some bread,' or 'of the bread.' 
IS. n. In gram., a word expressing partition; 
a distributive. 
partitively (piir'ti-tiv-li), adv. In a partitive 
manner. 
partizan 1 , partisan 1 (piir'ti-zan), n. and a. [< 
F. partisan, OF. partisan = It. partigiano, tor- 
meT\ypartegiano,parteggiano, ( ML. as if *par- 
titianus, usually, after Rom., partisanus, parti- 
zanus, a member of a party or faction, a part- 
ner, a farmer of taxes, < partita (> F. partie, 
etc.), apart, party: see partyi.~] I. n. 1. An 
adherent of a party or faction ; one who is pas- 
sionately or very earnestly devoted to a party 
or interest; specifically, one whose judgment 
or perception is clouded by a prejudiced ad- 
herence to his party. 
All the citizenswere such decidedparttgoiw, eitherof the 
gonfalonier or of the Salviati, that they would not inter- 
marry, or even give a vote for any man . . . who was not 
of their side. 7. Adami, Works, V. 118. 
The appeal, therefore, is to the people ; not to party, nor 
to partisans. D. Webster, Speech, Oct. 12, 1832. 
No one can be a right good partisan who is not a thor- 
ough-going hater. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 243. 
2. Milit., a member of a party or detachment 
of troops sent on a special enterprise ; also, the 
leader of such a party. 
II. a. 1. Of or pertaining to a party or fac- 
tion ; strongly biased in favor of a party or in- 
terest. 
^partisan warfare . . . had long existed between Gra- 
nada and its most formidable antagonist, the kingdoms of 
Castile and Leon. Irving, Granada, p. 7. 
The bestowal of places as the 
reward for partisan service, or 
at the dictation of influential 
politicians, had impaired the 
efficiency and energy of the 
public servants. 
The Century, XXXI. 150. 
2. Milit., engaged on a 
special enterprise : as, 
a partisan corps Parti- 
zan ranger (milti.), a member 
of a partizan corps. 
partizan 2 , partisan 2 
(par'ti-zan), n. [= MD. 
pertuisaen, ( OF. pertui- 
sane = It. partigiana = Fomls of panics. 
partner 
Sy.partesana, a partizan or leading-staff, < per- 
ttiiser (= It. pertugiare), make full of holes, 
bore, < pertnix = It. pertugio, pertugia, a hole, 
< ML. pertuxux, a hole, < L. pertwnderc, pp. per- 
tusvs, bore through: see perfuse.] 1. A long- 
handled cutting weapon used in England and 
Scotland from the fourteenth to the sixteenth 
century: a name including also the halberd, 
fauchard, roncone, etc. 
The hills were wooded with their partizans, 
And all the valleys overgrown with dar(s, 
As moors are with rank rushes. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, i. 2. 
The labourers do goe into the fields with swords and 
partizans, as if in an enemies countrey. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 6. 
2. A man, as a soldier or a guardian of the 
peace, armed with a partizan. 
They . . . were fighting hard, when the provost, with 
his guard of partizans, came in thirdsman and staved them 
asunder with their halberds, as men part dog and bear. 
Scott, Abbot, xviii. 
Morning-star partizan. Same as morning-star halberd 
(which see, under morning -star). 
partizanship (par'ti-zan-ship), n. [(partizan 1 
+ -ship.] Earnest or passionate adherence to 
a party or faction ; feelings or actions charac- 
teristic of a partizan. 
partlesst (part'les), a. [< ME. parties; (part 
+ -Uss.] 1. Without a part; not sharing. 
Who is he that nolde deme that he that is ryht myhty of 
good weere parties of the meede? 
Chaucer, Boethius, iv. prose 3, 
2. Without good parts. 
For man of woorth (say they>with parts indow'd 
The tymes floe not respect, nor wil relive, 
But wholly vnto partlesse Spirits giue. 
Dames, Microcosmos, p. 72. (Dames.) 
partlett (part'let), n. [Early mod. E., < ME. 
partlette; appar. a particular application of 
Pertelote, Pertelotte, a woman's name, also ap- 
plied to a hen,< OF. Pertelote, a woman's name.] 
1. A garment for the neck and shoulders, espe- 
cially for women. It was at one time of the nature 
of a neckerchief of linen or similar fabric, but a partlet of 
crimson velvet occurs in an inventory of Henry VIII.'s 
time. The ruffled or plaited edge of some forms of part- 
let seems to have given rise to the popular term for a hen. 
viij partlettes of Sypers. iij of them garnyshed with golde 
and the rest with Spanyshe worke. 
Inventory of Dame Agnes Hunger/ord, Archreologia, 
[XXXVIII. 370. 
Unfledge 'em of their tires, 
Their wires, their partlets, pins, and perriwigs. 
Beau, and Fl, Knight of Malta, i. 1. 
Somewhat later, the sleeves of dresses had puffs at the 
shoulders, and, when the dresses were made open above 
the girdle, a partlet, or kind of habit-shirt, was worn be- 
neath them and carried up to the throat. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 472. 
2. A hen. 
The faireste hewed on hire throte 
Was cleped fayre damoysele Pertelote. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 60. 
Thou dotard ! thou art woman-tired, unroosted 
By thy dame Partlet here. Shot., W. T., ii. 3. 75. 
I forgot to take your orders about your poultry ; the 
partlets have not laid since I went. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 23. 
partly 1 (part'li), adv. [( part + -fy 2 .] In part ; 
in some part, measure, or degree; not wholly: 
very often repeated in stating particulars that 
make up a whole. 
I do now partly aim at the cause of your repulse. 
R. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. 
They betook them partly to thir Weapons, partly to im- 
plore divine aid. Milton, Hist. Eng., iv. 
partly 2 !, aav - An obsolete form of pertly 1 . 
part-music (part'mu/'zik), n. Music intended 
for performance by two or more independent 
performers ; concerted or harmonized music : 
almost exclusively applied to vocal music. See 
part-singing and part-song. 
partner (part'ner), n. [Early mod. E. partener ; 
( ME. partener, partiner, partenere, pertenere, 
pertynere, a variant (appar. due to association 
with the primitive word part, and to the con- 
fusion of c and t, which were written alike in 
many manuscripts) of parcener: see parcener.] 
1. One who shares or takes part in anything; 
a sharer or partaker : as, to be a partner in one's 
joys and sorrows. 
The flesche es pertynere of the payne, that eftirwarde 
the saule be comforthede in hir sensualite. 
Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 15. 
Syth I have here been partynere 
With you of Joy and Blisse. 
The Nut-Emm Maid. 
2. One who is associated with another or oth- 
ers; an associate. 
Hen. I'll join with you in any thing. 
Via. In vain: 
I'll take mine own ways, and will have no partners. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iv. 1. 
