party 
The! hem rengeil by hundredes and by thowsamies, and 
closed hym in on nlle partyes, and smote vpon hym with 
theire speres at ones, and ouer-threwe hym and his horse. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 195. 
For my party, al that I shal eschiewe 
Whils that the soule ahidithe In his place. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 72. 
3. A company or number of persons ranged on 
one side, or united in opinion or design, in op- 
position to others in the community ; those who 
favor or are united to promote certain views or 
opinions: as, the Liberal party; the Democratic 
party; the party of moral ideas. 
Thider preced hothe partyes to the rescowe, and ther was 
grete losse on bothe parties. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 158. 
You will angry be with none 
That are of my partie. 
liobin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child's Ballads, V. 319). 
There were cliques and parties at Henry's court during 
the whole of his reign ; there was a strong party against 
VVolsey, there was a Protestant and a Catholic party, and a 
Norfolk and a Suffolk party. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 245. 
Hence 4. Side; cause. 
Maintain the party of the truth. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 32. 
Mgle came in to make their party good. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Eclogues, vi. 82. 
I will throw her into his way as often as possible, and 
leave him to make his party good as fast as he can. 
Colman, Jealous Wife, ii. 
5. A company or band of persons collected or 
gathered together for some particular purpose ; 
especially, a select company invited to be pres- 
ent and participate in some form of amusement 
or entertainment: as, a ple&snre-party ; a din- 
nerparty; a theater-party. 
If my brother Charles had been of the party, madam, 
perhaps you would not have been so much alarmed. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
He enjoyed a party of pleasure in a good boat on the 
water, to one of the aits or islets in the Thames. 
Miss Edgeivorth, Patronage, xix. 
One day there was a donation party at our house. The 
ladies of the town brought their wheels and spun quanti- 
ties of flax, which they gave to my mother ; and the young 
men made an ox-sled that they presented to pa. 
S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 5. 
6. A detached part of a larger body or com- 
pany ; specifically (milit. ), a detachment or small 
number of troops sent on a special service, as 
to intercept an enemy's convoy, to reconnoiter, 
to seek forage. 7. In law: (a) One of the lit- 
igants in a legal proceeding; a plaintiff or de- 
fendant in a suit : sometimes used collectively 
to include all the persons named on one side. 
The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. 
Ex. xxii. 9. 
(6) One expressly concerned or interested in 
an affair : as, a party to a contract or an agree- 
ment; the party of the first part. 
Since he made himself a party, it was not convenient for 
him to sit in the judicial place. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, v. 
8. One who is privy to a transaction or affair, 
or connected with it in any way; one who is 
more or less of an accomplice or accessory. 
An injury sharpened by an insult, be it to whom it will, 
makes every man of sentiment & party. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 61. 
Louisa. You have formed this plan for my escape but 
have you secured my maid in our interest? 
Duenna. She is & party in the whole. 
Sheridan, The Duenna, i. 3. 
9. A person; a particular person, as distinct 
from and opposed to any other ; a person under 
special consideration ; a person in general; an 
individual: as, an old party of my acquain- 
tance. [Now only vulgar.] 
Not only it is wee that have pierced the Partie thus 
found slaine, but this Party whom we have thus pierced 
is ... even the Only begotten Son of the most High Ood. 
Bp. Andrews, Sermons (ed. 1628), p. 341. 
We vse also to say so, when speaking of any body in se- 
crecie, and the partie comes in. 
Florio (under zuccoli, zoccoli). 
1 Worn, My master's yonder. 
Lady P. Where? 
2 Worn. With a young gentleman. 
Lady P. That same 's the party. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. 1. 
He 's a genteel-looking party. 1 wonder if he belongs 
to Sotor, King, & Co., of New York? 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 6. 
10t. Compact; treaty. 
All those countryes more feared him then Powhatan, 
and nee had such parties with all his bordering neigh- 
bours. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 232. 
American, Anti-Federal, Antimasonic, Antirent 
party. See the qualifying words. A partyt, a little; 
somewhat. 
Er wynter come and wexe a partie stronge. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 180. 
Constitutional Union, Democratic, Federal party. 
See the qualifying words. Equal Rights party. See 
4310 
Locofuco, s. Examination of party. See examination. 
Firing party (milit). See firing-party. Flying par- 
ty (milit.), a detachment of men employed to hover about 
and harass an enemy. Foraging party. See forage. 
Free Democratic party. See free. Greenback or 
Independent party. See greenback. In partyt, in 
part. 
" Sir," quod Kay, " and ther-fore am I come to yow, ffor 
I supposed in 'iiurtye what ye ment." 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.X ii. 25-2. 
Labor-Reform party. See greenback. Liberal, Lib- 
erty Monarchical, National party. See the qualify- 
ing words. Native American party. See American. 
New Court party. See court. Nominal party. See 
nominal. Old Court party. See court. Party in in- 
terest. See interest. People's party, a name assumed 
by various ephemeral political parties in the Vnited States, 
most frequently workingmen'sparties. Prohibition.Re- 
publican, Tory, Wnig party. See the qualifying words. 
= Syn. 3. Combination, Faction, etc. (see cabal'), league, 
set, clique, alliance, coalition. 
II. a. If. Partial; manifesting partiality. 
I wol be trewe juge and nought partye. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1799. 
2. Of or pertaining to a faction or party ; par- 
tizan: as, party lines ; party issues. 
O scorner of the parly cry 
That wanders from the public good. 
Tennyson, freedom. 
party 2 (par'ti), a. [< ME. party, < OF. (and F.) 
parti = Sp. Pg. partido = It. partita, divided, 
< L. partitas, pp. of partiri, divide : see part, r. 
Cf. party 1 .'] If. Divided; in part. 
She gadereth floures, parly why te and reede. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, L 195. 
Specifically 2. In Jier., divided into parts, 
usually equal : said of the field, especially when 
the division is in the direction 
of one of the ordinaries. Thus, 
party per/esse is divided by a horizon- 
tal line passing through the f ease-point ; 
parti/ per bend is divided by a line in 
the direction of the bend and into equal 
parts ; etc. In actual blazoning, how- 
ever, the word party is usually omitted, 
and instead of writing party per pale or 
and azure is written per pale, etc. Also 
parted. 
party-coated (par'ti-ko"ted), a. [Also, less 
prop., parti-coated ; < partyt + coat + -ed 2 .] 
Having a party-colored or motley coat. 
party-color (par'ti-kul"or),. [Also, less prop., 
parti-color; < party% + color.] Variegated col- 
ors. 
party-colored (par'ti-kuHprd), a. [Also, less 
prop., parti-colored ; < pariyl + color + -ccft.] 
Colored differently in different parts ; of divers 
colors; variegated; presenting a somewhat 
striking diversity of colors. 
The fulsome ewes . . . did . . . 
Fall parti-colour' d lambs. Shak., M. of V., L 3. 89. 
To see him run after a bubble which himself hath made, 
and the sun hath particoloured, and to despise a treasure. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 259. 
My mind was at that time 
A party-colored show of grave and gay, 
Solid and light, short-sighted and profound. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, iv. 
party-gold (piir'ti-gold), a. [< party"* + goU.~] 
Composed in part of gold, or partly gilt: said 
usually of a vessel otherwise made of silver, 
partyism (par'ti-izm), n. [< party' 1 + -ism.] 
Division into parties ; also, devotion to partv. 
[Recent.] 
" Broad " is an epithet not descriptive of a partisan, but 
rather of one who abhors all partifurm. 
American Literary Churchman, Dec. 16, 1883. 
party-jury (par'ti-jo'ri), n. [(party 2 +jury 1 .] 
A jury consisting half of natives and half of 
foreigners ; a half -tongue jury. 
party-list (par'ti-list), n. A list of the candi- 
dates for public positions proposed by a party 
to be voted for. Such a list may be printed or other- 
wise inscribed on a ballot, or it may be merely published 
or posted up for the information of the public, etc. [Eng. ] 
This voting, however, carried on by party-lists on differ- 
ently coloured cards, is practically open. 
Encyc. Brit., III. 291. 
party-man (par'ti-man), n. One of a party; 
one who is thoroughly or earnestly attached to 
the principles of his party; a partizan. 
party-spirited (par'ti-spir'i-ted), a. Having 
the spirit of party or of partizans. 
party-verdictt (par'ti-verdikt), n. A joint ver- 
dict. 
Thy son is banish'd upon good advice, 
Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave. 
Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 234. 
party-wall (par'ti-wal), M. [< party 1 , division, 
+ wall.~\ A wall upon the line between the 
premises of adjoining owners, which each has 
the right to use as a support for his structure, 
and usually also to some extent for chimneys, 
water-pipes, etc. It may belong to one owner or partly 
parvanimity 
to each, but what characterizes it as a party-wall is the ease- 
ment which both owners have in what belongs out and 
out to neither. 
Parula (par'o-la), n. [NL. (Bonaparte, 1838), 
dim. of Parus, q. v.] A genus of diminutive 
American creeping warblers of highly varie- 
gated coloration.belongingto the family Sylvico- 
liilie or MnioUltiase; the blue yellow-backed war- 
blers, p. americana is a beautiful little bird of eastern 
North America, migratory and insectivorous, inhabiting 
woodland, above blue with golden-brown interscapulars, 
below yellow and white with a golden-brown spot on the 
breast, the lores dusky, the eyelids touched with white, the 
wings crossed with two white bars, the tail-feathers exten- 
sively blotched with white ; the length is 43 inches, the ex- 
tent of wings 7i. A related species of Texas and south- 
ward is P. nigniora, and there are others, as P. pitiayumi. 
Also called Compsothlypis. 
parulis (pa-ro'lis), n. [= F. parulie = Sp. pa- 
rulis = Pg. parulia, parulida, < NL. parulis, < 
Gr. irapoiAic, a gum-boil, < napa, near, + ou/Uf, 
oJ/W, gum.] A gum-boil. 
parumbilical (par-um-bil'i-kal), a. [< Gr. napd, 
beside, + L. umbilicus, the navel see umbilical.'] 
In the neighborhood of the umbilicus. Parum- 
bilical veins, branches from the portal vein along the 
round ligament of the liver, anastomosing with the epigas- 
tric veins. 
parura (pa-ro'ra), n. ; pi. pamrie (-re). [ML. : 
see parure.] A'n apparel attached to the dal- 
matic : it is broader than is usual on the alb. 
parure (pa-ror'; F. pron. pa-riir'), n. [< ME. 
parure, parour, < OF. (and F.) parwe, < ML. 
paratura, attire, dress, finery, ornament, < L. 
parare, prepare: see pare 1 . Cf. parade.'] 1. A 
set of corresponding articles of decorative char- 
acter; also, the total amount of decoration pro- 
duced in any one case by similar means, as 
a set of embroideries or lace trimmings for a 
dress; hence, a set of ornaments intended to 
be worn together, or matching with one an- 
other: as, & parure of jewels. 2f. Ornament; 
adornment. 
I bequethe to the said chirche ane hole sute of vest- 
mytes of russet velvet. One coope, chesible diacones, 
for decones; with the awbes &ndparures. 
Test. Vetust., p. 267. (HaUiwell.) 
paruria (pa-ro'ri-ii), . [NL. , < Gr. irapa, beside, 
+ ovpov, urine.] Disordered micturition. 
Parus (pa'rus), . [NL.,<L.j;an<s, a titmouse.] 
The typical genus of Paridss and Parinse. The 
name was formerly applied with little discrimination to 
all the birds of this family and some others, but is now 
Greater TUmouse ( Parus major}. 
restricted to titmice congeneric with the marsh-tit of Eu- 
rope, P. palwlris, and the black-capped chickadee of 
North America, P. atricapillus. The species are numer- 
ous ; among them is the European P. major. See also cut 
under chickadee. 
pariisia (pa-ro'si-a), n. [NL., < Gr. napovaia. 
presence, < mipuv, ppr. of irapsivai, be present, 
< vapa, near, + elvai, be.] In rhet., the use of 
the present tense instead of the past or future, 
as in a vivid narration of a past or prediction 
of a future event. 
parva logicalia (piir'vii loj-i-ka'li-a). [ML.: 
Ij.parva, neut. pi. otpamis, small, little; ML. 
logicalis, pertaining to logic : see logical.] The 
name given in the middle ages to the branches 
of logic which were treated in the various sup- 
plements added from time to time to the Sum- 
mute of Petrus Hispanus. These subjects were the 
doctrines of supposition, ampliation, restriction, distribu- 
tion, appellation, exponibles, syncategoreumata, obliga- 
tions, insolubilia, consequences, etc. 
parvanimity (par-va-nim'i-ti), .; p\.parva>iim- 
ities (-tiz) . [< L. parvus, small, + animus, mind. 
Cf. magnanimity.] 1. The state of having a 
little or ignoble mind; littleness of mind; 
meanness: the opposite of magnanimity. 
When once it is noted that the apprehension of being 
derided for retracting is the sole obstacle that stands be- 
tween your reason and so important a change as your con- 
version, they will justly esteem your parvanimity so great 
that you deserve derision for so poorly fearing it. 
Boyle, Works, V. 215. 
2. A person with a little or ignoble mind. 
