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PAR'TY, / [ partie, Fr.] A number of perfons con¬ 
federated by iimilarity of defigns or opinions in oppofi- 
tion to others; a fadlion.—Divilion between thofe of the 
fame party, expofes them to their enemies. Pope. —One of 
two litigants.—When you are hearing a matter between 
party and party, if, pinched with the cholick, you make 
faces like mummers, and difmifs the controverfy more 
entangled by your hearing; all the peace you make in 
their caufe is calling both parties knaves. Shakefpeare .—• 
If a bilhop be a party to a fuit, and excommunicates 
his adverfary; fuch excommunication fftall not bar his 
adverfary from his adlion. Ayliffe's Par ergon. —One con¬ 
cerned in any affair: 
Freed and enfranchis’d ; not a party to 
The anger of the king, nor guilty of 
The trefpafs of the queen. Shakefpeare. 
-Side; perfons engaged againft each other: 
Our foes, compell’d by need, have peace embrac’d, 
The peace, both parties want, is like to lalt. Dryden. 
Caufe; fide.—Asgle came in, to make their party good. 
Dryden. —A feledt aflembly.—If the clergy would a little 
ffudy the arts of converfation, they might be welcome 
at ever y party where there was the lead regard for polite- 
nefs or good fenfe. Swift. 
Let me extol a cat on oyfters fed ; 
I’ll have a party at the Bedford-head. Pope. 
Particular perfon ; a perfon diftinft from, or oppofed to, 
another.—The minilter of jultice may, for public exam¬ 
ple, virtuoufiy will the execution of that party, whofe 
pardon another, for confanguinity’s fake, as virtuoufiy 
may defire. Hooker. —How fliall this be compaft? canft 
thou bring me to the party? Shakefpeare's Tempejl. —The 
imagination of the party to be cured, is not needful to 
concur; for it may be done without the knowledge of 
the party wounded. Bacon's Nat. Hift. —He that confefies 
his fin and prays for pardon, hath punifhed his fault: and 
then there is nothing left to be done by the offended 
party, but to return to charity. Bp. Taylor. —Though 
there is a real difference between one man and another, 
yet the party, who has the advantage, ufually magnifies 
the inequality. Collier on Pride.—A detachment of fol- 
diers: as, He commanded the parly ^ent thither.—Oppo- 
fite party; an ufage perhaps peculiar to Spenfer: 
It often falls in courfe of common life, 
That right long time is overborne of wrong, 
Through avarice, or power, or guile, or ftrife. 
That weakens her, and makes hex party ftrong. 
But juftice, though her doom fhe do prolong, 
Yet at the laft fhe will her own caufe right. Fairy Qu. 
Party, in a military fenfe, afmall number or detach¬ 
ment of men, liorfe or foot, fent upon any kind of duty; 
as into an enemy’s country, to pillage, to take prifoners, 
and oblige the country to come under contribution. Par¬ 
ties are often fent out to view the roads and ways, get 
intelligence, feek forage, reconnoitre, or amufe the enemy 
upon a march; they are alfo frequently fent upon the 
flanks of an army, or regiment, to difcover the enemy, 
if near, and prevent furprife or ambufcade. 
Recruiting Party, a certain number of men, under 
an officer or non-commiffioned officer, detached from 
their refpe&ive battalions, for the purpofe of enlifting 
men. 
Firing Party, thofe who are fele&ed to fire over the 
grave of any one interred with military honours. The 
Specific number of which the party is to confifl depends 
upon the rank which the deceafed held in the army; 
thus, the funeral of a field-marfhal muft be faluted with 
3 rounds of 15 pieces of cannon, attended by 6 batta¬ 
lions, and 8 fquadrons; that of a general, with 3 rounds 
of 11 pieces of cannon, 4 battalions, and 6 fquadrons; 
and this was all the honour that could confiftently be 
allowed at the funeral of Napoleon, ex-emperor of the 
French, May 10, 1821, at St. Helena. 
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The funeral of a colonel is faluted by his own battalion, 
or an equal number by detachment, with 3 rounds of 
fmall arms ; that of a captain, by his own company, or 
70 rank and file, with 3 rounds of fmall arms; that 
of a lieutenant, by 1 lieutenant, 1 ferjeant, 1 drummer, 
1 fifer, and 36 rank and file, with 3 rounds; that of an 
enfign, adjutant, furgeon, or quarter-mafter, by an en- 
fign, a ferjeant, and drummer, and 27 rank and file, with 
3 rounds; that of a ferjeant, by aferjeant, and 19 rank 
and file, with 3 rounds of fmall arms ; that of a corpo¬ 
ral, mufician, private man, drummer, and fife, by 1 fer¬ 
jeant, and 13 rank and file, with 3 rounds of fmall arms. 
kFbr/u’ng'-PARTiEs. Thefe confifl: of fmall detachments 
of men, under the immediate command and fuperintend- 
ance of officers, who are employed on fatigues which are 
not purely of a military nature. They are generally 
called fatigue-duties, being different from thofe of parade, 
or of exercife in the field. They principally confifl in 
digging canals, repairing roads, working on fortifications, 
except fuch as may be conflrufted in the field, or upon 
actual fervice. An addition is made to their pay, as a 
reward for their labour, and a compenfation for their 
extraordinary wear of neceflaries; half of which fliould 
always be paid into the hands of the captains and com¬ 
manding officers of companies, for this latter purpofe. 
It has been judicioufly obferved, in a note to the trea- 
tife on Military Finance, that Britifh troops might in 
time of peace be employed much oftener than they are 
on works of this nature, with equal advantage to the 
public and to themfelves. This remark becomes more 
forcibly appofitefince the adoption of canals through the 
country. James's MU. Di 6 t. 
PAR'TY-COLOURED, adj. Having diverfity of co¬ 
lours.—The leopard was valuing himfelf upon the luftre 
of his party-coloured fkin. L'Efirange. 
The fulfome ewes, 
Then conceiving, did in yeaning-time, 
Fall party-colour'd lambs. ShaheJ'peare's Merck. ofVen. 
From one father both, 
Both girt with gold, and clad in party-colour'd cloth. 
Dryden. 
Conftrain’d him in a bird, and made him fly 
With party-colour'd plumes a chattering pie. Dryden. 
Four knaves in garb fuccinft, a trufty band, 
And party-colour'd troops a fhining train. 
Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain. Pope. 
Motley, in a figurative fenfe.—The mixture of fool and 
knave maketh up the parti-colour'd creatures that make 
all the buftle in the world. Mary, of Halifax. 
PAR'TY-JU'R Y, f. [In law.] A jury in fome trials, 
half foreigners and half natives. 
PARTY-MAN', f. A fadlious perfon; an abettor of 
a party.—The moft violent party-men I have ever ob¬ 
ferved, are fuch as, in the conduct of their lives, have 
difcovered leaft figns of religion or morality. Susift. 
PAR'TY-WA'LL, f. Wall that feparates one houfe 
from the next.—’Tis an ill cuftom among bricklayers to 
work up a whole ftory of the party-walls, before they work 
up the fronts. Motion. 
PA'RU, a fort of Brafil, in the jurifdi&ion of Para, on 
the north fide of the river Amazon. Lat. 1. 50. S. Ion. 
54. 10. W. 
PA'RU, or Ginipape, a river of Brafil, which runs 
into the Amazon near Paru. 
PARU'A, a river of Brafil, which runs into the Atlan¬ 
tic in lat. 13. 20. S. 
PAR'UAH, [Heb. one that flourilhes.] A man’s 
name. 
PAR'VAIM, in Scripture geography, either Parbacia 
in the land of Havilah, or Ophir. Perhaps Taprobane is 
the fame as Taph-parvaim, “the Shore of Parvaim.” From 
Parvaim king Solomon had the gold wherewith he over¬ 
laid the infide of his temple. 2 Citron, iii. 6 . 
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