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.

Departure.

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.

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.

Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.

A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.

One who passes; a passenger.

One who passes by, especially casually or by chance; one not directly involved in some action; a passer.

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

Like or belonging to the Passeres.

The largest order of birds comprising about half the known species: rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; in four suborders: Eurylaimi; Tyranni; Menurae; Oscines or Passeres.

A genus of small North American bush-loving finches; the New World buntings.

One of the Passeres.

The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.

Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.

Passibility.

A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passiflore/, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

A natural family of tropical woody tendril-climbing vines.

Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.

Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.

Exceedingly.

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. A passionary.

A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

To affect with passion; to impassion.

In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.

The state or quality of being passionate.

A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.

The last fortnight of Lent.

Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.

Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.

Having no pass; impassable.

One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.

A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

See Paspy.