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Capable of being divided into two parts.

Dividing into two parts. -- n.

Divisible into two parts.

Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty.

The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.

One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.

To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. [R.] The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.

The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden. In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work. Carew.

See Copartner. [Obs.]

To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).

A compartment. [Obs.] T. Warton.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.

the state of being copartners in any undertaking. [R.]

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.

To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.

Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.