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Part; portion; share. [Obs.] Ford.

To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak.

One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.

An edible British crab. [Prov. Eng.]

Separated; devided.

One who, or which, parts or separates. Sir P. Sidney.

The pit of a theater; the parquet. [France]

A poem in honor of a virgin. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniæ, or sons of unmarried women.

The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.…

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. -- Par`the*no*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Parthenogenetic.

Same as Parthenogenesis.

A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.

Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon. "Partial dissolutions of the earth." T. Burnet.

Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.

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.