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One who is partial. [R.]

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. [R.]

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

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. "Make the molds partible." Bacon.

Capable of being participated or shared. [R.] Norris.

Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.

In a participant manner.

Acting in common; participating. [R.] Shak.

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury.

Capable of participating.

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

Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.

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

In the sense or manner of a participle.

A part of speech partaking of the nature 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 ex…

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. The small size of atoms which unite To make the smallest particle of light. Blackmore.

Same as Party-colored.

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every…