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. . part and parcel of the race and place." Howitt. -- Part of speech (Gram.), a sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence. -- Part owner (Law), one of several own…

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 halk and every her…

One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2. [Eng. Univ.]

One of a class of virulent microörganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch. Milman.

The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

A Linnæan class of plants having five separate stamens.

Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

One of a class of substances (complex carbohydrates widely distributed in plants, as in fruits, gums, woods, hay, etc.) which yield pentoses on hydrolysis.

The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people. And strive to gain his pardon from the people. Addison .

ich is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.

Any plant of the class Phænogamia.

The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.