Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. A native of Parthia.

To make motley or parti-colored.

Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly. Same as Party-colored.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

Partiality; the doctrine of the Partialists.

One who is partial.

The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.

To make or be partial.

In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.

The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.

Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.

Capable of being participated or shared.

A participator; a partaker.

In a participant manner.

To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.

Taking part in an activity; as, the participating organizations.

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.

Capable of participating.

One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.

A participial word.

To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.

In the sense or manner of a participle.

A part of speech partaking of the nature of both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles.

A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles (such as protons or electrons) to speeds near that of light, for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter; sometimes also called an atom smasher, since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles.

That branch of physics which investigates the nature of matter, and in particular the properties and behavior of the elementary particles (fundamental particles), of which matter is composed. Included in this field is the more specialized branch of high-energy physics.

A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.

Same as particularize.

A minute description; a detailed statement.

One who holds to particularism.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

The act of particularizing.

To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative.

Stated or described in detail.

In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.

A particular; a detail.

Having the form of a particle.

Matter composed of particles; -- often used in the pl.; as, the quantity of particulates in auto exhaust is strictly regulated.

The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct characteristic of a partisan.

A suite; a set of variations.

Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.

Divided into partitions.

An analysis into mutually exclusive categories.

An advocate of partitioning a country.

The act of partitioning.

A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part; as, the phrase /of the team/ in /half of the team/.

In a partitive manner.

A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but later by women alone; a ruff.

In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.

To associate, to join.

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

imp. of Partake.

Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicid/, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.

The local environment; as, he hasn't been seen around these parts in years.

A song with two or more voice parts.

To bring forth young.

Parturition.

Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.

Parturient.

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.

Partly.

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.

Someone who is attending a party{4}; as, the hall was crowded with an overflow of partygoers.

Devotion to party.

The type genus of the Parulidae: wood warblers.

A natural family of New World warblers.

Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

An ornament or decoration for the person; esp., a decoration consisting of a set of ornaments to be used together; as, a parure of rubies or of embroideries.

The type genus of the family Paridae.

A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.

The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.

The wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the goddess of plenty.

An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

A court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.

Littleness.

A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.

A liquid base, C9H13N, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isomeric substances of which it is the type.

A pace; a step, as in a dance.

The gemsbok.

The passover; the feast of Easter.

Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs.

The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.

The head; the poll.

An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.

The jurisdiction of a pasha.

See Pasha.

Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.

A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.

A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

See Pasch.

A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure.

See Pasch.

See Pasquin.

A lampooner; a pasquiler.

A lampooner.

To lampoon; to satiraze.

To lampoon, to satirize.

An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

The quality of being passable.

Tolerably; moderately.

An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

A pass or thrust.

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.

That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.

Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a pass/e belle.

A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.