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he genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. Chaucer.

Departure. [Obs.] Spenser.

To bring forth young. [Obs.]

Parturition.

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

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

Parturient. [Obs.] Drayton.

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

Pertaining to parturition; obstetric. [R.]

A part or portion. [Obs.] "The most party of the time." Chaucer.

Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

Devotion to party.

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.

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

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. De Quincey.

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. Chaucer.

Littleness. [Obs.] Glanvill. Ray.